[pdftex] Problems with pdftex.map / Virtual fonts

Tue May 14 17:59:17 CEST 2002

Adrian Heathcote wrote:

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

Thomas Esser answered:

TE> No, pdftex needs the vf files.

Well, you can omit the vf files if you don't need your fonts to be 
re-encoded, e.g. if you're just using plain.tex with Computer Modern fonts.

Thanks to the ASCII standard, there is always a simpler solution for you 
English-speaking folks who must not care about funny chars > 127 ...

The primary document on vf files is 
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/virtual-fonts.knuth

Gerolf