I'd like to understand MikTeX's mechanism for finding files, in particular PostScript font outlines (pfb). I'm running MiKTeX on an old Windows 98 box, and on my system, issuing the command
% findtexmf --show-path=.pfb
yields a number of directories inside MiKTeX's hierarchy (as expected) and 2 extra ones:
C:\psfonts\ C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat3\Reader\FONTS
I wonder
1) where these directories come from. Sure, they contain PFB files, but they are not the only ones: C:\PSFONTS contains more subfolders (which aren't searched, I tested), and there is another Acrobat version installed in another folder, which also contains (different) fonts, but MiKTeX doesn't notice.
2) How can I change the search path? In particular, I would like to have MiKTeX search C:\PSFONTS recursively, so that it can locate all the PostScript outlines arranged in a hierarchy.
Are there any files I should tweak? I bluntly grepped all of MiKTeX's directories for occurrences of relevant strings (ACROBAT3 and PSFONTS, for example) -- even binary files! -- but I wasn't able to spot anything that helped me understand. Can some kind reader steer me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance!