[pdftex] Problems with pdftex.map

[Adrian Heathcote]

Hi all

I know this is rather off topic, but while the discussion is on the .map 
files and slanted fonts, I wonder you'd indulge me with a further 
question.

It is this: Suppose one has used Sebastian Rahtz's set of support files 
on ctan to install a postscript font (say Agaramond) and one thinks that 
the slant figure in the .map file needs adjustment; is it a simple 
matter of altering the tan value for the degree of the slant? I'm 
concerned that there might be something else there that needs to be 
adjusted that is not so visible and I don't want to monkey with it if 
there is a balance that can be upset. (And I use both pdftex and dvips.)

Thanks

Adrian Heathcote
On Sunday, May 12, 2002, at 06:13 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 01:17 AM 5/12/2002 +1000, Adrian Heathcote wrote:
>
>>> 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).
>>
>> Hans---could you give an example of the entries in such a map file. 
>> Also---is this specific to pdftex or will it work with the dvips —> ps 
>> route?
>
> well you can have :
>
>   sun3 Sun-Light 4 < sun3____.pfb texnansi.enc
>
> or less informative but more robust:
>
>   sun3 < sun3____.pfb texnansi.enc
>
> btw, because (1) i hate unreadable filenames and (2) want to avoid 
> problems with pseudo slant and caps fonts, i prefer to use more verbose 
> names:
>
> texnansi-raw-uplr8a-capitalized-800 URWPalladioL-Roma                   
> 4 < uplr8a.pfb texnansi.enc
> texnansi-raw-uplr8a-slanted-167     URWPalladioL-Roma "0.167 SlantFont" 
> 4 < uplr8a.pfb texnansi.enc
>
> (as supported/generated by texfont.pl)
>
> Hans
>
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