[MiKTeX] What's the difference between updmap, mkfntmap, initexmp --mkmaps?

[Helmer A. <mat...@ma...>]

Hi guys,

I just started using MiKTeX last weekend, and I'm pretty confused about 
the documentation!

I've managed to install cyberbit.ttf to run the CJK UTF-8 example file and 
the mathtimes professional fonts. I used updmap, but a friend of mine told 
me about mkfntmap. A bit more googling led me then to initexmf --mkmaps.

I have looked at <http://www.miktex.org/manual/psfonts.html>, 
<http://www.miktex.org/2.2/mkfntmap.html> and
<http://www.miktex.org/2.4/issues.html>, and I'm quite confused. 

I believe that the instructions on 
<http://www.miktex.org/manual/psfonts.html> are wrong, in that it just 
tels me to edit updmap.cfg and then refresh the file name database. 

I guess that mkfntmap is the "correct" version. Can I just forget about 
the two other?

I wish the graphical "MiKTeX Options" program would take care of this. 

Thanks in advance for any helpful comments!

Helmer
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