[OS X TeX] pdftex in TL2004

Vinayak Vatsal vatsal at math.ubc.ca
Mon Nov 15 22:35:20 EST 2004


Never mind -- I was stupidly running altpdflatex, thinking it was pdftex. 
Please ignore my previous message.

--On Monday, November 15, 2004 6:14 PM -0800 Vinayak Vatsal 
<vatsal at math.ubc.ca> wrote:

> Hi Gerben,
>
> I tried your suggestion, but it didn't quite work: I got an error as
> follows
>
> pdfTeX error (ext1): \pdfmapfile used while \pdfoutput is not set.
> <recently read> \pdfmapfile
>
> On the other hand, the PDF file seemed to be created. Any idea what this
> is about?
>
>
>
>
>
> --On Monday, November 15, 2004 9:08 PM +0100 Gerben Wierda
> <Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl> wrote:
>
>> Put
>>
>> 	\pdfmapfile{+myfonts.map}
>>
>> in your document. I*think* you could add it to
>>
>> 	/Library/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
>>
>> but I am uncertain what happens with such an entry if you use the
>> standard teTeX commands that influence the file.
>>
>> G
>>
>> On 15 Nov 2004, at 17:16, Vinayak Vatsal wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Gerben,
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if you can explain to me privately how pdftex gets its
>>> map files in the latest TL 2004 distribution. I previously used a
>>> custom written pdftex.cfg map placed in ~/Library/texmf/pdftex/ but it
>>> seems that no longer works.
>>>
>>> I used my own file because I was doing a lot of fiddling with fonts
>>> and changing map files frequently, and I'd like to keep doing this,
>>> rather than running updmap every time I change something. Is this
>>> still possible under the new system??
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Nike Vatsal
>>>
>>>
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