[tex-live] updmap and TEXMFHOME
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sun Dec 5 22:46:26 CET 2010
On 5 December 2010 Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Sat, 4 Dec 2010 23:40:34 +0100 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
>
> >> 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.
>
>
> > 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.
>
> Yes I meant the case that someone would like to change the
> pdfmap-entries, but I didn't thought only about testing. I also
> thought about settings like dvipsPreferOutline, dvipsDownloadBase35
> and LW35 in updmap.cfg. Do you really think that a user who wants to
> use the adobe fonts instead of the urw fonts should be forced to add
> some code to every document?
No. When a user wants to use an Adobe font in one document, he
doesn't want to break all the other documents. You cannot reliably
use Adobe fonts with metrics for URW fonts. I was told that there are
already different versions of the Adobe fonts. Hence, the behavior is
quite unpredictable. Not downloading the fonts is even worse.
Nevertheless, one could also consider a config file written in TeX.
I think it's desirable to be able to specify the fonts in documents.
It's not possible with updmap.
Regards,
Reinhard
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