[XeTeX] Differing font name handling betwixt Mac OS X and W32 (and Linux?) XeTeX

[William Adams]

On Jun 15, 2006, at 8:16 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> It's a xetex thing (OK, bug, if you insist!), not fontspec. And
> underlying it are differences between the information available
> through ATS and Fontconfig. And it's also related to the problems
> xetex currently has with optical families on Linux/Windows, mentioned
> recently in connection with Garamond Premier Pro.

Got it.

> I'm currently re-working some of the font-handling code to try and
> improve this, so we'll see how things stand once that's done.....

Excellent. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

Have you seen this:

http://store.adobe.com/type/pdfs/Type1-2-OpenType.pdf

  --- perhaps it would help?

William

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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications



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