PDF CID keyed font support

Hi,
I understand that PDF supports embedded CFF font programs for composite fonts of type CIDFontType0 - the spec is clear.
But, does it support embedded font programs that are not CFF - ie. CIDFont with type 1 descendent for example?
The spec only mentions CFF when talking about type 1 composite fonts, but it isn't totally clear.
So, does PDF support embedded non-CFF programs for composite type 1 fonts?
regards
Steve

I thought CIDFonts existed in the PS world well before PDF, and also, in the PS world, CIDFonts are more complex because they aren't limited to a single descendent font.
My understanding of the PDF spec is that a composite font has only 1 descendant unlike in PS. But that's a bit off topic.
AFP (a nasty old IBM transactional print language) will generate CIDFonts which use type1 font (not CFF) as a descendent - these CIDfonts are handled by FreeType.
the problem I have is how to embed them in PDF (when converting the AFP stream to PDF).
The bit you quote from the ISo standard is really clear, I agree, I had been using the PDF reference manual which doesn't specify CFF for composite based in type1, it says:
"•A Type 0 CIDFont contains glyph descriptions based on the Adobe Type 1 font format"
based on the ISO spec and what you tell me, I guess it is clear that you cannot represent a CIDFont which is based on a non-CFF font program in a PDF file unless you convert the Type1 font to CFF. Is that right?
Thanks
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