On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:26:00AM +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote: > Well, changing the default configuration file is not necessarily > something that dvips developers need to hear about. The original > config.ps file has section saying: > % This shows how to add your own map file. > % Remove the comment and adjust the name: > % p +myfonts.map I may be missing something, but it seems to me that we shouldn't hardcode map files in here, but instead use updmap. > However, if one were to change updmap to add ".t42" entries instead of > ".ttf" to psfonts_t1.map instead of my solution of using an additional > map, then one needs to make sure that the TeX distro ships t42 > counterparts for all ttf fonts it ships because there is no fallback > for dvips anymore if dvipsPreferOutline is enabled. And there are some > ttf fonts shipped with TeXLive, but obviously no t42 versions. What about generating t42 versions, or have them in a package that dvips depends on (on fedora...)? And then patch updamap to use t42 fonts in priority over ttf fonts? > It's not clear if dvips is even supported/maitained anymore by Radical > Eye. Their web page [http://www.radicaleye.com/dvips.html] says "To > get the latest version of dvips, simply get the latest version of > teTeX or some other TeX distribution that includes dvips. [...] I no > longer support installation of dvips independent of full installation > of a TeX distribution." So, presumably we'd have to send the patch to > TeXLive. Adding an additional map seemed a lot simpler than dealing > with this mess... It indeed seems that dvips is maintained by texlive folks, at least that's the conclusion I came to when looking at what should come from texlive or not. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
