CTAN package update: the CMap package
Date: April 26, 2007 6:24:36 PM CEST
Vladimir Volovich wrote:
> i've uploaded the file cmap-1.0g.tar.gz to the incoming directory of
> ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>
> Please replace the content of CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/cmap/
> with this new version.
>
> description of changes:
>
> =============================
> Added support for the Arabic and Farsi encodings (files lae.cmap
> and lfe.cmap), contributed by Youssef JABRI.
>
> Added support for OT1 encoding (files ot1.cmap and ot1tt.cmap),
> contributed by Oleg Katsitadze.
>
> Added "dotless j" mapping to T1, T2A, T2B, T2C; this character
> appeared in unicode 4.1 (noticed by Oleg Katsitadze).
>
> The package now detects the monospace (typewriter) fonts (by
> checking whether \fontdimen3=0, \fontdimen4=0 and widths of
> letters "W" and "i" are the same). If a monospace font is
> detected, and a file <encoding>tt.cmap exists, it will be used
> for this font instead of <encoding>.cmap. This is useful for
> encodings such as OT1 where there are variants in mapping
> between "normal" and "typewriter" fonts.
>
> To force loading of the CMap files even for fonts such as cmr10
> which are normally preloaded into the pdflatex format file, add
> an option [resetfonts]. This will undefine those fonts and load
> the CMap for them (if they will be used in the document).
> =============================
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the
catalogue entry.
Interested users may see the catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/cmap.html
or view the distribution itself at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cmap/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
cmap – Make PDF files searchable and copyable
The cmap package provides character map tables, which make PDF files generated by pdfLaTeX both searchable and copy-able in acrobat reader and other compliant PDF viewers. Encodings supported are OT1, OT6, T1, T2A, T2B, T2C and T5, together with LAE (Arabic), LFE (Farsi) and LGR (Greek) and a variant OT1tt for cmtt-like fonts.
The package’s main limitation currently is the inability to work with virtual fonts, because of limitations of pdfTeX. This restriction may be resolved in a future version of pdfTeX.
Package | cmap |
Version | 1.0j 2021-02-06 |
Copyright | 2003–2021 Vladimir Volovich |
Maintainer | Marcel Krüger Vladimir Volovich |