Re: [PATCH] Wrong font mappings with updmap 20020901 pretest

[Thomas Esser]

 when configured to use the Adobe Base 35 fonts updmap erroneously maps 
 the fonts from the phv*8an family to Helvetica-Condensed instead of 
 Helvetica-Narrow. I have included a patch for updmap below.

Whow! Thanks a lot for spotting this one! How silly of me to assume that
simple u - p mapping between the urw and adobe fonts ... :-(

Thomas

Re: 20020901 pretest

[Adrian Bunk]

Hi Thomas,

I built Debian packages of 20020901 for my private use and I was pretty
surprised that libkpathsea lost it's so-name (there's no longer a
libkpathsea.so.3). This breaks software that was linked with
libkpathsea.3 and looking at any other shared library I know this seems to
be wrong.

cu
Adrian

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Alan Cox

Re: 20020901 pretest

[Adrian Bunk]

Hi Thomas,

my personal wishlist of packages I'd like to see included in teTeX:

- eurosym (own licence that seems to qualify as free)
- extsizes (LPPL)


TIA
Adrian

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20020901 pretest

[Thomas Esser]

Hi,

I have uploaded a new teTeX-beta release, which will soon appear here:
  ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20020901.tar.gz
  
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20020901.tar.gz

Main differences from previous release:
* remove libs/libtiff/mkversion binary
* more careful memory settings in texmf.in
* fix cleanup() in fmtutil, texconfig, texlinks, updmap
* new updmap options to allow to download standard fonts
  with dvips and pdftex

The new updmap options allow to set up dvips / pdftex to download the
standard fonts. Downloading the standard fonts gives you bigger files,
but this works around bugs where badly broken fonts would be used
instead of the original Adobe fonts when using some funny software or
postscript printer.

updmap generates two map files for pdftex: pdftex_dl14.map and
pdftex_ndl14.map (one with download and the other no download).
pdftex.map will be a symlink to one of the two, depending on what you
choose as pdftexDownloadBase14 (true/false) in your updmap configuration.

The setup for dvips is more user-friendly, because updmap generates
a default configuration for dvips (depending on dvipsDownloadBase35)
plus two additional map files that can be used to override the default
on the dvips commandline: -Pdownload35 resp. -Pbuildin35.

Thomas