Norbert Preining wrote:
Hi Danai! On Son, 10 Dez 2006, Danai SAE-HAN wrote:So here is -0.2, which does the following: - install doc files - do NOT install any map activation files in /etc/texmf/updmap.dSo if I understand correctly, ConTeXt (which I haven't used yet) doesn't use the .map files anymore with pdfTeX? This might be interesting for the CJK packages. Or is the change only relevant for ConTeXt-specific fonts?No, but the map files are installed into ..../texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/... so that context/pdftex finds them. But there is no need for activation via updmap as *only* pdftex is used. Or at least this is how I understand it.
the problem with a big map file is that it is potentially problematic (it definitely was in the past) because there is some fuzzy logic involved when embedded files are handled in pdftex;
so, in context, i don't preload all map files, but use \pdfmapfile{...} to explicitly load a map file so that we can be sure we have the right one -- keep in mind that we can have files on the system with similar internal names (the one between " in the map file) but different metric (slant, ext, cap,...) ; so, when you have a problem with a missing file (reported by pdftex), you can use \loadmapfile[somename.map] in context
Hans