让pdflatex支持中文

之前是把latex弄的支持中文了，我指的是用latex生成dvi，然后用dvipdfmx转pdf, 我记得当时
dvipdfm不支持中文

现在需要pdflatex了，主要是因为添加图片的原因。不过这个一直没成功，说是找不到字体。

按理说latex+dvipdfmx能找到字体，pdflatex应该也行，可是事实不是。
经过实验，我发现utf8的用pdflatex可以编译（我用的是cyberbit字体，见之前的文章），但是
GBK的不行（这个是用windows字体转的）。

在网上查，并和同学讨论，尝试了updmap命令，不过似乎把dvipdfm弄好了，pdflatex还是不行。

最后发现pdflatex的提示信息显示它读取的配置文件在~底下，而我从来没弄过这个，估计是某个程序自动生成的（也有可能是updmap），然后就把它删了。这时发现pdflatex竟然支持GBK字体了。

看来是用户配置覆盖了全局的配置。但是这次成功跟updmap有没有关系就不得而知了。以后再试吧。

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