[OS X TeX] pdftex 1.20a

[Gerben Wierda]

On 13 Oct 2004, at 11:23, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Just a follow-up: I upgraded to the experimental version, and most  
> things work. However, there is a problem with pdftex + mapfiles:  
> pdftex now expects mapfiles in a different location than before; my  
> own maps wouldn't work anymore so I couldn't use the fonts I installed  
> myself. Hans Hagen posted something on the ConTeXt mailing list that I  
> forward here:
>
> On Oct 11, 2004, at 10:03 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> you need to change the texmf.cnf file accordingly
>>
>> TEXPSHEADERS  =  
>> .;$TEXMF/{fonts/{enc,map,type1,truetype},dvips,pdftex,tex}//;$TEXMF/ 
>> {etex,tex,pdftex,dvips,fonts/type1}//
>> TEXFONTMAPS   =  
>> .;$TEXMF/{fonts/map//,fontname};$TEXMF/{pdftex,dvips}/config;$TEXMF/ 
>> {pdftex,dvips}//
>>
>> TEXCONFIG         =  
>> .;$TEXMF/{fonts/map,dvips,pdftex,dvipdfmx,dvipdfm}//
>> PDFTEXCONFIG      = .;$TEXMF/pdftex/{$progname,}//
>> DVIPDFMINPUTS     =  
>> .;$TEXMF/{fonts/map,dvips,pdftex,dvipdfmx,dvipdfm}//
>
> I did this, regenerated the maps with sudo updmap, and now everything  
> seems to be working. Hope this might help somebody.

Yes, it helped me. This search stuff is rather complex, especially with  
two versions of the tree structure and two different sets of files that  
need to be found so I was hoping someone else would come up with the  
solution. The new i-Package will install this during configure.

G

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