[pdftex] How do I use tfm-only font in pdftex?

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi all,

Question:

I am trying to use a font family for which I do not have the font binaries, 
only tfm metric files. I simply cannot get that to work in pdf output mode, 
and I don't understand why (the manual claims it is possible). 

The final users of these documents will have the font families installed 
on their system, so that they will have the correct output, and if I look
at the documents I would see the replacement 'Adobe sans MM'.

Here is my current mapfile entry (cf. the manual)

minion Minion-Regular !junk.pfb "TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont" <texnansi.enc


junk.pfb is a copy of tir.pfb. Contrary to what I expected pdftex *does*
intepret this file, so a dummy file of size 0 doesnt work ...

This compiles happily, but if I try to open the resulting PDF file, the
Acrobat Reader says to me:

  "Font Minion-Regular has a bad /BBox"


In an earlier attempt the "!junk.pfb" wasn't there,  but then pdftex gives me 
the warning 'invalid map entry: missing font file'. 


Removing the '!' doesnt work either, because that way the fontname in the pdf 
document changes to 'Times-Roman', thereby making the pdf document use the wrong 
font alltogether.

Did I miss something or is what I want just not possible?

Another (related) question: it seems pdftex no longer interprets the
fontflags integer. Is that correct, and if so: could it perhaps be changed back?
It is a pity that serifed Minion is now replaced with a sans-serif MM font.


-- 
groeten,

Taco