[tex-live] updmap and TEXMFHOME
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sat Dec 4 23:40:34 CET 2010
On 4 December 2010 Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2010/12/4 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:
> > On 4 December 2010 Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> >
> > > Am Sat, 4 Dec 2010 02:31:16 +0100 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
> > >
> > > > I thought that it's sufficient to put \pdfmapline into the
> > .fd file > > because this is loaded on demand: > > If
> > \pdfmapline commands were in the fd-files it would be difficult
> > > for a user to overwrite such defaults as the fd-files are
> > quite > often read just before the font is used.
> >
> > Which defaults do you have in mind? \DeclareFontShape? When I
> > change them in the preamble, I usually load the .fd file before
> > to make sure that nothing gets overwritten later.
> >
> I understand what Ulrike means. Imagine that I have an "improved"
> version of PFB filesand I want to tes them using the same TFM
> files. I do not want to install them because I am not sure that I
> want to use them in all document. I therefore add \pdfmapline or
> \pdfmapfile to the beginning of the document. If the fd file is not
> preloaded in the format and the font is first used after my
> \pdfmap* commands, they will be overwritten by the definitions from
> the fd file.
>
> In past I used \pdfmapfile for defining new PFB mapping for testing
> purpose and when typesetting a document using a commercial font
> which I was allowed to use just for that single document, therefore
> I did not want to install it.
Ok, I didn't consider this case. I recently did it the other way
round: I created new metrics for Bitstream Charter and thus had a
renamed tfm file.
But if this all is about testing, a simple solution is to load the .fd
files before setting \pdfmapline in the preamble. They won't be
overwritten later.
Regards,
Reinhard
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