[pdftex] Problems with pdftex.map / Virtual fonts

[Siep]

On Tue, 14 May 2002 16:59:17 +0200
"G. D. Brettschneider" <pdftex at GDBrettschneider.de> wrote:

> 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

Actually, on-the-fly reencoding does NOT require virtual fonts. Y&Y
makes use of this for their texnansi tfms, some of which are in the
teTeX distribution.

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Siep Kroonenberg
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