Hi pdftex fans, there is a new experimental patch for pdftex-1.11b at: http://www.circuitwizard.de/pdftex/patch2/pdftex-avlpatch2-newest.tgz which is now http://www.circuitwizard.de/pdftex/patch2/pdftex-avlpatch2-20031231-0019.tgz News are: 1. New primitive \pdfmapline{...}, \pdfmapline{+...}, \pdfmapline{=...}, \pdfmapline{-...} allows to enter or delete single map lines. Similar modes as with the \pdfmapfile{} command. 2. If a PDF file is to be embedded, it is now early checked, whether the corresponding font files are available. If a font file from the map listing is not existing, the font coming with the embedded PDF file is used instead, without warning. The case, that a PDF file is embedded, and then the font is missing in the final PDF file e. g. due to a typo in the fontfile name, should not happen any more. To do this, I have added another search tree, which contains only the names of the font files actually requested, with path and availability info. Once a file name with full path is in this tree, looking the full path up there should be faster than asking the kpse_find_file() function. 3. Repaired empty \pdfmapfile{} case (which was wrong in my former patch), and now also an empty \pdfmapline{} clears the map item list. The mapfile warning has also gone. 4. Tidied up fm_scan_line(). Now the map line handling is clearly separated from the map file handling. It seems to run basically with all test files here, but the really hard testing part, especially against all these nifty MM instance cases is to be done. There are sooo many odd cases... That's the "end-of-2003-patch" status from here. I would be glad, if you find time to try it out. Regards, Hartmut ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Henkel In den Auwiesen 6, D-68723 Oftersheim, Germany E-Mail: hartmut_henkel@gmx.de http://www.circuitwizard.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------