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Hi! As Karl suggested, I implemented new pdfTeX primitive for controlling if PK font specified in \pdfmapline or \pdfmapfile should be treated as scalable or not. Now by default PK fonts in mapfile/mapline are scalable. Setting value to boolean register \pdfpkscalable takes affect for followings \pdfmapfile and \pdfmapline calls. When is 1 (true) then PK fonts specified in mapfile/mapline are scalable, when 0 (false) then non-scalable (like if they are not specified in mapfile/mapline). Default value is \pdfpkscalable=1 (so behaviour like before). It is useful for specifying enc file for non scalable PK font file (as most bitmap PK fonts does not scale). In patch I defined new fm type flags F_TYPE3 and F_SCALT3FONT, so fm entry can be correctly check if is type 3 or not. Next I split behaviour of current function hasfmentry() into hasfmentry() and isscalable(). hasfmentry() returns true if font id has fm entry (like before), and isscalable() returns true if font id is scalable. In more places was used call hasfmentry() just for checking if font is scalable. Now after introducing non-scalable PK fonts in fm entry, check for scalable font cannot be done by hasfmentry(). So after this change font is *not* scalable (OR): * was not specified in \pdfmapfile or \pdfmapline * is PK Type3 and \pdfpkscalable was set to 0 prior map line processing Example for pdftex -ini: \pdfoutput=1 \catcode`\{=1 \catcode`\}=2 \pdfpkresolution=600 \hsize=4in \vsize=4in \parfillskip=0pt plus1fil \pdfcompresslevel=0 \pdfobjcompresslevel=0 \output={\shipout\box255} \input glyphtounicode \pdfgentounicode=1 \pdfmapline{} % disable all Type1 fonts \pdfpkscalable=0 \pdfmapline{cmr10 <7t.enc} \font\fa=cmr10 \fa ffi test \vskip10pt \font\fb=cmr10 at 60pt \fb ffi test \end When line with pdfmap 7t.enc is commented, then output PDF would not have Unicode definition for ffi ligature. When line \pdfpkscalable=0 is commented, then font at 60pt would look very ugly in result PDF file (just scaled \fa cmr10 with 600dpi). Suggestions or improvements to my patch are welcome! -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com