... unless the font didn’t consist of cubic bezier curves in the first place. TrueType outlines (quadratic bezier curves) are converted to cubic beziers, which Illustrator isn’t particularly good at. So expanding TrueType fonts will insert additional points on the curves.
6 Aug 2012 — 11:34pm
They should be exactly the same.
7 Aug 2012 — 1:51am
... unless the font didn’t consist of cubic bezier curves in the first place. TrueType outlines (quadratic bezier curves) are converted to cubic beziers, which Illustrator isn’t particularly good at. So expanding TrueType fonts will insert additional points on the curves.
8 Aug 2012 — 12:50am
Oh yeah, I forgot about TT outlines.