Lets sau that I design a font in metafont and produce the appropriate files: (.fd .afm, .t3 and vf and maybe more). Can anyone who is not a latex person, ans rather works with proprietary softwares like Adobe's, can do anything with the new type I created? Is my new font meaningful outside tex and latex's world?
@tush you don't normally get afm from metafont. You could make a type3 bitmap font which woud be usable but render poorly, to get a type1 outlne font you'd need to use the tools devloped over the years to get type1 font versions of cm, but basically either trace a high res bitmap or use metapost based tool chains. Even within the tex world a pure metafont based font with pk bitmap glyphs has limited use: it prints fine on paper but most pdf readers will render it poorly.
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