[pdftex] Problems with pdftex.map

[Hans Hagen]

At 09:18 AM 5/11/2002 +0200, Thierry Bouche wrote:

>RK> Ideally pdfTeX should look for "URWPalladioL-Roma" in the map-file and
>RK> associate this with "uplr8a.pfb".  No more, no less.
>
>yes.
>
>RK> Things like ".82 ExtendFont" should be ignored when reading the map
>RK> file.
>
>I suppose you mean "lines containing things like..."; and Slantfont too,
>of course, which is much more frequent.

This 'feature' is one reason why i use map files with no explicit font 
names (second entry). Pdftex does not really need them. (for instance 
combining two files with different slanted instances fails with explicit 
names, but works well with minimal map specs).

With regards to the map file and the fact that the first encountered match 
is used, as well as that map files can only be read on the first page: 
these are known limitations and afaik are on thanh's 'todo list'.

Hans
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