[pdftex] Problems with pdftex.map

[Adrian Heathcote]

Thanks, Thomas for this response.

Can i ask further to this issue whether pdftex uses the vf files that 
are necessary for dvips? Or can they be absent entirely?

Adrian Heathcote

On Sunday, May 12, 2002, at 04:01 PM, Thomas Esser wrote:

>> can I ask how recent are we talking? Is it likely that those of us 
>> using
>
> I am talking about
>
>   Change 1392 by rokicki at rokicki on 2001/10/20 20:04:30
>
>         Made dvips properly support partial font downloading when a
>                PostScript font is used by multiple TeX fonts, and the
>                different TeX fonts use different encodings, including 
> possibly
>                no encoding.  Only works when you use TEXPDF 
> downloading, so
>                I also turned that on by default in download.c.
>
>> the current teTeX distribution have this (I use Gerben W.'s OSX version
>> myself)?
>
> I think that Gerben's OSX port always uses the latest stuff available,
> so his latest version should not have this bug.
>
>> This all came up in a discussion of whether tetex needs to have font
>> files in .pfb format or whether with the correct .map file it would be
>> possible to use .pfa's or macintosh's .lwfn type font files.
>
> I have no idea what .lwfn files are, but I just have tested that pdftex
> works with pfa files.
>
> Thomas