[tex-live] updmap and TEXMFHOME

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sat Dec 4 23:40:34 CET 2010


On 4 December 2010 Zdenek Wagner wrote:

 > 2010/12/4 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:
 > > On 4 December 2010 Ulrike Fischer wrote:
 > >
 > >  > Am Sat, 4 Dec 2010 02:31:16 +0100 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
 > >  >
 > >  > > I thought that it's sufficient to put \pdfmapline into the
 > > .fd file  > > because this is loaded on demand:  >  > If
 > > \pdfmapline commands were in the fd-files it would be difficult
 > >  > for a user to overwrite such defaults as the fd-files are
 > > quite  > often read just before the font is used.
 > >
 > > Which defaults do you have in mind?  \DeclareFontShape?  When I
 > > change them in the preamble, I usually load the .fd file before
 > > to make sure that nothing gets overwritten later.
 > >
 > I understand what Ulrike means. Imagine that I have an "improved"
 > version of PFB filesand I want to tes them using the same TFM
 > files. I do not want to install them because I am not sure that I
 > want to use them in all document. I therefore add \pdfmapline or
 > \pdfmapfile to the beginning of the document. If the fd file is not
 > preloaded in the format and the font is first used after my
 > \pdfmap* commands, they will be overwritten by the definitions from
 > the fd file.
 > 
 > In past I used \pdfmapfile for defining new PFB mapping for testing
 > purpose and when typesetting a document using a commercial font
 > which I was allowed to use just for that single document, therefore
 > I did not want to install it.

Ok, I didn't consider this case.  I recently did it the other way
round: I created new metrics for Bitstream Charter and thus had a
renamed tfm file.

But if this all is about testing, a simple solution is to load the .fd
files before setting \pdfmapline in the preamble.  They won't be
overwritten later.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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