[pdftex] Re: Embedding fonts

[Jens-Uwe Morawski]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:23:58 +0200
Thomas Esser <te at informatik.uni-hannover.de> wrote:

> > one option can be to have a command line switch for specifying the config 
> > file to use, say --config=myconfig.cfg, since that way one can set more 
> > options, like compressions
> 
> That's exactly what would help. Similar to dvips's -P switch which can
> be used to load additional config files. It would be nice, then, to be
> able to read more than one config file. E.g. have a config file that
> loads an additional map file *and* still read pdftex.cfg. Otherwise,
> one would need to replicate settings and maintain them in several files
> (compression, paper sizes etc.).

I don't believe that somebody remembers the command line options
he has used a year ago to process a pdfTeX document. since pdfTeX
is TeX and backend in one programm it should be possible to specify
all options in the TeX file. AFAIK all options are currently available
(\pdfmapfile, \pdfcomresslevel...)
from inside the TeX input file. Therefore, no command option needed.

Jens