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PROGRAM:

NAME

updmap - manage TeX font maps, per-user
updmap-sys - manage TeX font maps, system-wide

SYNOPSIS

updmap [OPTION] ... [COMMAND]
updmap-sys [OPTION] ... [COMMAND]

DESCRIPTION

updmap version svn33988 (2014-05-12 15:39:32 +0900)

Update the default font map files used by pdftex, dvips, and dvipdfm(x), and optionally
pxdvi, as determined by all configuration files updmap.cfg (the ones returned by running
"kpsewhich --all updmap.cfg", but see below).

Among other things, these map files are used to determine which fonts should be used as
bitmaps and which as outlines, and to determine which font files are included in the PDF
or PostScript output.

updmap-sys is intended to affect the system-wide configuration, while updmap affects
personal configuration files only, overriding the system files. As a consequence, once
updmap has been run, even a single time, running updmap-sys no longer has any effect.
(updmap-sys issues a warning in this situation.)

By default, the TeX filename database (ls-R) is also updated.

OPTIONS

--cnffile FILE
read FILE for the updmap configuration (can be given multiple times, in which case
all the files are used)

--dvipdfmxoutputdir DIR
specify output directory (dvipdfm(x) syntax)

--dvipsoutputdir DIR
specify output directory (dvips syntax)

--pdftexoutputdir DIR
specify output directory (pdftex syntax)

--pxdvioutputdir DIR
specify output directory (pxdvi syntax)

--outputdir DIR
specify output directory (for all files)

--copy cp generic files rather than using symlinks

--force
recreate files even if config hasn't changed

--nomkmap
do not recreate map files

--nohash
do not run texhash

--sys affect system-wide files (equivalent to updmap-sys)

-n, --dry-run
only show the configuration, no output

--quiet, --silent
reduce verbosity

Commands:
--help show this message and exit

--version
show version information and exit

--showoption OPTION
show the current setting of OPTION

--showoptions OPTION
show possible settings for OPTION

--setoption OPTION VALUE
set OPTION to value; option names below

--setoption OPTION=VALUE
as above, just different syntax

--enable MAPTYPE MAPFILE
add "MAPTYPE MAPFILE" to updmap.cfg, where MAPTYPE is Map, MixedMap, or KanjiMap

--enable Map=MAPFILE
add "Map MAPFILE" to updmap.cfg

--enable MixedMap=MAPFILE add "MixedMap MAPFILE" to updmap.cfg

--enable KanjiMap=MAPFILE add "KanjiMap MAPFILE" to updmap.cfg

--disable MAPFILE
disable MAPFILE, of whatever type

--listmaps
list all active and inactive maps

--listavailablemaps
same as --listmaps, but without unavailable map files

--syncwithtrees
disable unavailable map files in updmap.cfg

Explanation of the map types: the (only) difference between Map and MixedMap is that
MixedMap entries are not added to psfonts_pk.map. The purpose is to help users with
devices that render Type 1 outline fonts worse than mode-tuned Type 1 bitmap fonts. So,
MixedMap is used for fonts that are available as both Type 1 and Metafont. KanjiMap
entries are added to psfonts_t1.map and kanjix.map.

Explanation of the OPTION names for --showoptions, --showoption, --setoption:

dvipsPreferOutline
true,false (default true)

Whether dvips uses bitmaps or outlines, when both are available.

dvipsDownloadBase35
true,false (default true)

Whether dvips includes the standard 35 PostScript fonts in its output.

pdftexDownloadBase14
true,false (default true)

Whether pdftex includes the standard 14 PDF fonts in its output.

pxdviUse
true,false (default false)

Whether maps for pxdvi (Japanese-patched xdvi) are under updmap's control.

kanjiEmbed
(any string)

kanjiVariant
(any string)

See below.

LW35 URWkb,URW,ADOBEkb,ADOBE (default URWkb)

Adapt the font and file names of the standard 35 PostScript fonts.

URWkb URW fonts with "berry" filenames (e.g. uhvbo8ac.pfb)

URW URW fonts with "vendor" filenames (e.g. n019064l.pfb)

ADOBEkb
Adobe fonts with "berry" filenames (e.g. phvbo8an.pfb)

ADOBE Adobe fonts with "vendor" filenames (e.g. hvnbo___.pfb)

These options are only read and acted on by updmap; dvips, pdftex, etc., do not
know anything about them. They work by changing the default map file which the
programs read, so they can be overridden by specifying command-line options or
configuration files to the programs, as explained at the beginning of updmap.cfg.

The options kanjiEmbed and kanjiVariant specify special replacements in the map
lines. If a map contains the string @kanjiEmbed@, then this will be replaced by
the value of that option; similarly for kanjiVariant. In this way, users of
Japanese TeX can select different fonts to be included in the final output.

ENVIRONMENT

Explanation of trees and files normally used:

If --cnffile is specified on the command line (possibly multiple times), its
value(s) are used. Otherwise, updmap reads all the updmap.cfg files found by
running `kpsewhich -all updmap.cfg', in the order returned by kpsewhich.

In any case, if multiple updmap.cfg files are found, all the maps mentioned in all
the updmap.cfg files are merged.

Thus, if updmap.cfg files are present in all trees, and the default layout is used
as shipped with TeX Live on Debian, the following files are read, in the given
order.

For updmap-sys:
TEXMFSYSCONFIG /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
TEXMFSYSVAR /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
TEXMFLOCAL /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
TEXMFDEBIAN /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
TEXMFDIST /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg

For updmap:
TEXMFCONFIG $HOME/.texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg
TEXMFVAR $HOME/.texmf-var/web2c/updmap.cfg
TEXMFHOME $HOME/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
TEXMFSYSCONFIG /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
TEXMFSYSVAR /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
TEXMFLOCAL /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
TEXMFDEBIAN /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
TEXMFDIST /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg

According to the actions, updmap might write to one of the given files or create a
new updmap.cfg, described further below.

Where changes are saved:

If config files are given on the command line, then the first one given will be
used to save any changes from --setoption, --enable or --disable. If the config
files are taken from kpsewhich output, then the algorithm is more complex:

1) If $TEXMFCONFIG/web2c/updmap.cfg or $TEXMFHOME/web2c/updmap.cfg appears in the
list of used files, then the one listed first by kpsewhich --all (equivalently, the
one returned by kpsewhich updmap.cfg), is used.

2) If neither of the above two are present and changes are made, a new config file
is created in $TEXMFCONFIG/web2c/updmap.cfg.

In general, the idea is that if a given config file is not writable, a higher-level
one can be used. That way, the distribution's settings can be overridden for
system-wide using TEXMFLOCAL, and then system settings can be overridden again for
a particular using using TEXMFHOME.

Resolving multiple definitions of a font:

If a font is defined in more than one map file, then the definition coming from the
first-listed updmap.cfg is used. If a font is defined multiple times within the
same map file, one is chosen arbitrarily. In both cases a warning is issued.

Disabling maps:

updmap.cfg files with higher priority (listed earlier) can disable maps mentioned
in lower priority (listed later) updmap.cfg files by writing, e.g.,

#! Map mapname.map

or

#! MixedMap mapname.map

in the higher-priority updmap.cfg file.

As an example, suppose you have a copy of MathTime Pro fonts and want to disable
the Belleek version of the fonts; that is, disable the map belleek.map. You can
create the file $TEXMFCONFIG/web2c/updmap.cfg with the content

#! Map belleek.map Map mt-plus.map Map mt-yy.map

and call updmap.

updmap writes the map files for dvips (psfonts.map) and pdftex (pdftex.map) to the
TEXMFVAR/fonts/map/updmap/{dvips,pdftex}/ directories.

The log file is written to TEXMFVAR/web2c/updmap.log.

When updmap-sys is run, TEXMFSYSCONFIG and TEXMFSYSVAR are used instead of TEXMFCONFIG and
TEXMFVAR, respectively. This is the only difference between updmap-sys and updmap.

Other locations may be used if you give them on the command line, or these trees don't
exist, or you are not using the original TeX Live.

To see the precise locations of the various files that will be read and written, give the
-n option (or read the source).

EXAMPLES

For step-by-step instructions on making new fonts known to TeX, read
http://tug.org/fonts/fontinstall.html. For even more terse instructions, read the
beginning of the main updmap.cfg.

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