[tex-live] font map files?
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sat Jan 13 23:04:27 CET 2007
>>>>> "Zdenek" == Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> writes:
>> AFAIK Context uses \pdfmapfile (I really wish that LaTeX will do
>> the same in the future) and if it doesn't work I suppose that the
>> ls-R database is not up-to-date.
>>
> pdflatex and pdftex can use \pdfmapfile too.
Of course, but unfortunately dvips doesn't support it yet. This is
required if LaTeX switches to \pdfmapfile. But I hope that it happens
in the near future because all the updmap and updmap-sys stuff is
quite confusing.
Suppose that you run updmap. You'll get your personal updmap.cnf. If
your system administrator installs a new font you can't use it because
the change is not reflected in your personal updmap.cnf.
What a mess! It would be nice if every program understands \pdfmapfile
or \special{map: ...} or whatever and we can get rid if
{psfonts,pdftex,dvipdfm}.map.
Regards,
Reinhard
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