[OS X TeX] Loading Ski Bold in TexShop

[Herbert Schulz]

On Apr 19, 2014, at 1:13 PM, James A Mingo <mingo at mast.queensu.ca> wrote:

> I have been trying to use xelatex with the Skia font that comes with Mavericks (10.9.2). I am using texlive2013 and TeXShop 3.18, all recently installed.
> 
> When I run:
> 
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \begin{document}
>   \fontspec[BoldFont={Skia},
>    BoldFeatures={Weight=2}]{Skia}
> \fontsize{14pt}{20pt}\selectfont
> Skia \quad \bfseries Skia `Bold'
> \end{document}
> 
> using xelatex, I get output in Skia Regular, including the part \bfseries Skia `Bold’. Since this snippet is straight out of the fontspec documentation. I presume this is the correct way to load the font whose postscript name is “Skia-Regular_Bold”.
> 
> Is this the correct way to load Skia Bold? 
> 
> Jamie Mingo.

Howdy,

Hopefully others will give more information but Skia seems to have been broken under xetex for a long time. There was (is?) a Skia test file that, at some time on the long past, produced a table of many Skia weights and spreads and that hasn't worked in years.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)