[tex-live] TL2004: adding a map to pdftex only

Gerben Wierda Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl
Tue Oct 19 14:23:56 CEST 2004


>> \pdfmapfile{+myfonts.map}
>> in your document
>
> With dvips and (old) pdftex, it was possible to set up fonts globally
> on the system in a way that does not affect documents.  Now, if we add
> such things into documents, it will make them less portable.
>
> I thought that it would at least be possible to use pdftexconfig.tex and
> to store the information about map files in the format. While this is
> already a step back (format generation time vs. document processing time),
> it did not even work in my tests. Adding
>
>   \catcode`\{=1
>   \catcode`\}=2
>   \pdfmapfile{+foo.map}
>   \catcode`\{=12
>   \catcode`\}=12
>
> to pdftexconfig.tex did not cause foo.map to be read (neither at format
> generation time nor while processing a document using the new format).
>
> Does this mean, that we can only define the map files in the documents
> and no longer anywhere outside? Or, does it mean that updmap will be
> the only way to set up fonts globally for pdftex?
>

My guess would be that updmap needs to have some way to know that certain
map files are only to be used for certain engines.

G



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