[Mac OS X TeX] dvips + type 1 fonts presentations

[Ross Moore]

> On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 10:17 , Ross Moore wrote:
> 
> > For pdftex, the .map files should be different to those
> > of dvips, with pdftex always finding the .pfb fonts.
> 
> I think that on Mac OS X this might not be logical. Even when you use 
> tex+dvips (e.g. altpdftex), you still want to produce PDF. Why should 
> PDF from one route differ from the other?

While I agree that on Mac OSX this is usually what you'll want,
it is quite possible that sometimes someone will want to create
just PostScript, or .eps .

For example, using LaTeX2HTML, it is vital to be able to create .eps
files using dvips. Also, there is no reason why a Mac shouldn't be used
to create specialised output at a fixed resolution, for a known printer.

So if you set the default to be -Ppdf,  then make sure that there
is also a sufficiently easy way to use .pfa or bitmap fonts instead.

 
> > then there is a mistake inside the  texmf.cnf  file.)
> 
> They are and this is by design (Thomas Esser's design). There are pro's 
> and cons to this design. See other mails.



> However, you can make different setups easily enough by not creating 
> different map files with updmap, but by editing your texmf.local copies 
> of dvips/config.ps and pdftex/pdftex.cfg.
> 
> I would suggest that you leave updmap alone and edit these. You can add 
> all the pfb mappings you like to pdftex.cfg.

Yes, the user can do whatever configurations he/she likes.
 
> > For dvips, it is not hard to include  -Ppdf  in the menu-item
> > (or whatever other technique is used by TeXShop)
> > which invokes a dvips run; so there is no point in changing
> > teTeX's default configuration file to do this.
> 
> As I said before, -Ppdf has its problems. As soon as there is no pfb 
> file it will make pdfTeX try to create a 8000dpi font and metafont will 
> choke, or it did the last time I tried.

Well, *that*  sounds like a pretty convincing message that something is
missing on the local system. Much more effective that a simple
warning message that is likely to be overlooked.  :-)


Cheers,

	Ross

 
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