[XeTeX] XeTeX and Vista

[Jonathan Kew]

On 27 Apr 2008, at 8:12 pm, Arno Trautmann wrote:

> 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“,

It sounds to me like maybe you need to run fc-cache as an  
Administrator; I think Vista is preventing fc-cache or xetex (which  
would normally do it automatically) from updating the fontconfig  
cache file in the Windows Fonts directory.

I don't know exactly how to do that, though; I'm not a Windows user.

JK