[XeTeX] "Missing" system fonts
John Smith
jds10 at cam.ac.uk
Fri May 25 12:57:34 CEST 2007
Hey, I'm really glad for John Was that *he* is getting good advice for
his problems. But I posted the original request for help, and it seems
to have been accidentally hijacked. My problem is that certain fonts
on my Mac OS X Tiger system seem to be invisible to XeTeX, though
FontBook and even Word are happy to use them. Running fc-cache has no
effect on this.
Here's the key part of my original posting.
<--snip-->
There are lookalikes for Times, New Century Scoolbook, Palatino,
Helvetica and Courier (they are based on the freeware fonts released
by URW++).
All five typefaces are installed on my MacBook Pro. All five appear in
FontBook. All five are usable within Word. The first three work fine
with XeteX. But if I try to use the Helvetica or Courier fonts, XeTeX
tells me it cannot find them:
! Font \bigrm=Courier_IndUni at 15.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file
or installed font not found.
<to be read again>
\font
\usecourier ...igrm ="Courier_IndUni" at15pt\font
\bigit
="Courier_IndUni-Ob...
l.31 \usecourier
-- and so forth.
Obviously there is no TFM file; but the fonts are installed, and the
XeTeX macro is using the correct names for them. Any ideas what might
be happening?
John Smith
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Dr J. D. Smith
jds10 at cam.ac.uk
http://bombay.indology.info
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