[XeTeX] Error message with new XeTeX

[Jonathan Kew]

On 3 Jun 2006, at 12:39 pm, Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A file which used to compile without problems before the upgrade ---
> yes, I like to live on the edge :) --- now displays an error.  The
> offending line is
>
> \newfontinstance\hispfont[Color=33AA33,Mapping=tex-text,Scale=0.9] 
> {Arial}
>
> and the error message is
>
> Package fontspec Info: Defining font family for "Arial" with  
> options [Color=33A
> A33,Mapping=tex-text,Scale=0.9] on input line 28.
> Package fontspec Info: \font is "Arial:color=33AA33,mapping=tex- 
> text," on input
>  line 28.
> Package fontspec Info: \font is "Arial/B:color=33AA33,mapping=tex- 
> text," on input line 28.
> Package fontspec Info: \font is "Arial/I:color=33AA33,mapping=tex- 
> text," on input line 28.
> ! Cannot use \XeTeXOTcountfeatures with Arial Italic; not an  
> OpenType Layout font.
> \zf at check@ot at feat ...OTcountfeatures \zf at basefont
>                                                   \c at zf@script  
> \c at zf@languag...
> l.28 ...=33AA33,Mapping=tex-text,Scale=0.9]{Arial}

Curious. Seems to work fine for me.

Could you look in Font Book and see what version(s) of Arial you  
have, where they're installed, and which are actually active? (Font  
Book shows a bullet by fonts that are "masked" by others with the  
same name.) Do you have Arial fonts installed in multiple places (/ 
Library, ~/Library, System Folder/Fonts, etc.?) I'm guessing that  
perhaps XeTeX is finding an Arial Italic that comes from a different  
source from the regular Arial (one from Apple and the other from  
Microsoft, maybe), and fontspec is getting confused.

JK