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mftrace - Scalable Fonts for MetaFont
mftrace is a small Python program that lets you trace a TeX bitmap font into a PFA or PFB font (A PostScript Type1 Scalable Font) or TTF (TrueType) font. It is licensed under the GNU GPL.
Scalable fonts offer many advantages over bitmaps, as they allow documents to render correctly at many printer resolutions. Moreover, Ghostscript can generate much better PDF, if given scalable PostScript fonts.
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took an estimated 1 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2002
ending with its most recent commit almost 16 years ago
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