[tex-live] TL2004: adding a map to pdftex only

Hartmut Henkel hartmut_henkel at gmx.de
Tue Oct 19 19:42:20 CEST 2004


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Thomas Esser wrote:
>
> > Does this mean, that we can only define the map files in the
> > documents and no longer anywhere outside? Or, does it mean that
> > updmap will be the only way to set up fonts globally for pdftex?
>
> a macro package can load a default file, for instance:
>
> \everyjob{\input localfonts.map\relax}

This was tried out by pawcoo <jackos1 at poczta.onet.pl> for some .ini
file, and it works, see his mail in the pdftex list from 21 Jul 2004:

\input plain
...
\everyjob\expandafter{\the\everyjob\pdfmapfile{+acchsh.map}}
...
\dump

I've put it into the pdftex manual.

Regards, Hartmut



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