New font tools for TEX

The following font tools will be described in this paper: VFlib, the Vector Font Library, which has been written by Kakugawa Hirotsugu (Ì ̄<ê). This library together with an included suite of demo applications is aimed to provide a uniform interface for accessing fonts in many di erent formats. With the help of con guration les it is possible to access fonts with other encodings, to de ne new (virtual) fonts, and others. Using VFlib as a basis for dvi drivers, it will be no longer necessary to have pk les for any font format except for Metafont. FreeType, developed by David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and the author of this paper. This is a platform-independent library to render bitmaps from TrueType fonts. What makes it di erent from other freely available TrueType tools is a TrueType interpreter to process hints. ttf2pk and hbf2gf, maintained resp. written by the author. Both programs are part of the CJK package and are used to convert CJK TrueType and HBF fonts into TEX fonts.