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

[Gerben Wierda]

On 19 Oct 2004, at 19:42, Hartmut Henkel wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> Thomas Esser wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> a macro package can load a default file, for instance:
>>
>> \everyjob{\input localfonts.map\relax}
>
> This was tried out by pawcoo <jackos1 at poczta.onet.pl> for some .ini
> file, and it works, see his mail in the pdftex list from 21 Jul 2004:
>
> \input plain
> ...
> \everyjob\expandafter{\the\everyjob\pdfmapfile{+acchsh.map}}
> ...
> \dump
>
> I've put it into the pdftex manual.

Still, this is far from ideal because it requires a format dump to 
work. Whereas with the config system before it was done during a normal 
run. It was even possible to have a pdftex.cfg in a project directory.

G