[XeTeX] XeTeX and Vista

[Arno Trautmann]

Ulrike Fischer schrieb:
> Am Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:21:11 +0200 schrieb Arno Trautmann:
>>>> \font\myfont="DS-Garamont" at 14pt
>>>>
>>>> test
>>>> \bye
>>>> causes XeTeX to stop (not any output) and holding nearly 50% of CPU.
>>>> I have MikTeX 2.7, Windows Vista.
>>>> Is this a known bug? 
>>> do you have DS-Garamont on Vista? And is this the correct font name?
>> Yes, I have the font and with linux I could use it just this way.
>>
>>> Want happens if you try e.g. "Arial"?
>> The same result.
> 
> Your code works fine for me (with Arial), but I have WinXP. You could
> try to separate the two steps to get more info:
> 
> xetex --no-pdf test

That doesn‘t work. Just the same as with pdf.

> xdvipdfmx -vv test
> 
> And you could try to (re)build the caches:
> 
> fc-cache --verbose  or
> fc-cache --verbose --force 

That seemed to work. But I get the outputs ”skipping“, ”misssing 
directory“, ”permission denied“, and in the end ”fc-cache: succeeded“.
After that I still cannot compile.

Arno