Bug#130601: tetex-base: /etc/texmf/pdftex/pdftex.cfg should list full path to /etc/texmf/dvips/pdftex.map

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Richard Kilgore <rkilgore@abcv.com>
Subject: Bug#130601: tetex-base: /etc/texmf/pdftex/pdftex.cfg should list full path to /etc/texmf/dvips/pdftex.map
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:19:48 -0600

> When I use pdftex or pdflatex, it complains that it cannot find
> pdftex.map, and the output is so poor that it is unusable (the
> document fonts look bad, whether viewed in acroread, gv, or even
> on a Windows machine with Acrobat Reader).
> 
> When I change the "map" setting in /etc/texmf/pdftex/pdftex.cfg from:
> 
>     map pdftex.map
> 
> to:
> 
>     map /etc/texmf/dvips/pdftex.map
> 
> pdftex finds the map file and everything works.  I don't know
> why, but I have an older version of tetex-bin and tetex-base
> installed on my machine at home, the setting does _not_ contain
> the full path, and it works fine.  Here are the versions at home:

Didn't you set TEXINPUTS or similar environment variables?

Please show us the output of "env | grep TEX".

Best regards,		  2002.3.11

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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