Re: newest version on teTeX-3.0

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

John R. Culleton wrote:
> On Saturday 04 June 2005 10:20 am, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>>i'm not familiar with updmap
>>
>>(dvipdfm works ok now, is there a mapfile loading special in dvips?)
>>
>>Hans
> 
> Updmap is a new method of updating all the various font

i know what it does, but i don;t know the dirty details -)

i don't use it because

(1) i had other mechanisms in place before updmap came around

keep in mind that i have quite some fonts on my system, and esp for commercial 
fonts have metrics that may not match ones that now or later show up in the tex 
distributions and map entries play a role in inclusion of pdf graphics and i 
don't want surprises (read: wrong metrics and substitutions)

(2) i want more control over loading (handy when you have thousands of fonts)

(3) when this 'big map file' came around it froze pdftex due to the 
implementation of map files in pdftex, but that was solved later, as well as 
caused inclusions problems due to the fact that duplicate FontName entries clash 
(esp tricky with slanted of expanded fonts)

So, i'd rather play safe -)

Hans

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