Re: Bug#351525: dvipdfmx: how to properly implement map files support for dvipdfmx
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 07.02.06 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
>> "A Lee" <alee@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> > If updmap-sys is used to for such fonts, it MUST NOT modify the
>> > map file of dvipdfm because dvipdfmx also read it.
>>
>> Therefore it would make things much easier if upstream (i.e. the
>> TeXlive people and Thomas Esser) would decide to drop the
>> unmaintained dvipdfm completely and use dvipdfmx instead.
>>
> I've told the dvipdfmx people, that some programs from dvipdfm are
> missing, like ebb. I didn't got an answer until now: i.e. if it will
> be implemented or if it is available as dvipdfmx command line switch
> or else.
I am confident that ebb doesn't need any special "ebbx" treatment - it
just looks at JPEG, PNG, and PDF files and extracts the bounding box.
I would be surprised if it wouldn't simply be possible to take ebb.c and
its Makefile.in snippets and put them into dvipdfmx.
If dvipdfmx upstream are reluctant to do this, it might be because they
don't need and use it. AFAIK, there are other programs to do this (one
from context?).
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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