Shrinking a font

Question

I'm looking for a possibility to horizontally shrink the font I use in my whole document.

I do not only mean the tracking of the letters, but also (if possible) to reduce the letter width by lets say 2%.

PS:

I tried the tracking of the "microtype" package, but it didn't work for me, because I get tons of errors from my equations that won't compile any longer, as soon as I \usepackage[...]{micropage}. Without that, everything compiles fine.

! Extra \fi.
\MT@tr@outer@r@ ...er@next \relax \fi \fi \fi \fi 
                                                  \fi \fi \fi \fi \fi \fi \M...
l.35 ...rac{\epsilon_0\,k_B\,T_e}{\pi\,e^2\,n_e}}}

But tracking is anyway not really what I'm looking for, as I want to shrink the whole font...

Also I can't rely on special fonts that allow for specific options that would only work for that particular font...

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Options:

• Use pdftex, get a Multiple Master font w/ a width axis --- set the width to what you want.
• create a virtual font which horizontally scales each character box
• load the font into FontForge, scale it horizontally to 0.98 size, install the modified font
• use a similar font which sets more economically
• design the entire document at 102.040816326530612% wider than it should be, post-process it to scale it horizontally to 98%