[tex-live] pdftex35.map

Bob Tennent rdt at cs.queensu.ca
Thu Mar 13 02:18:21 CET 2008


 >|      pdfTeX warning: pdflatex: No flags specified for non-embedded font
 >|      `Times-Roman' (ptmr8r) (I'm using 34): fix your map entry.
 >|
 >|Thanks very much for writing and giving us an early heads-up on this.
 >|
 >|After some discussion with Martin and Hartmut, the result was that the
 >|best approach would be for pdftex *not* to warn about the flags missing
 >|for the "base14" fonts when unembedded, since it already knows exactly
 >|what flags to use.  (It's rather nontrivial to add the flags to the map
 >|file(s), due to all the tools involved.)  This will be in the next
 >|pdftex release.
 >|
 >|However, it will (as I understand it) continue to warn about any other
 >|fonts which are unembedded without flags.  There are none such in TeX
 >|Live, as far as I know.

That'll be fine. I think unnecessary warnings should be avoided
(particularly when they warn the user to "fix" something).

Best,
Bob T.


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