[XeTeX] Font not found error

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 04:00:30PM +0100, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 2 Jul 2009, at 15:43, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote:
> Looking at the "corrected" fonts received from both Fr Michael and  
> Peter, I notice that the font names have been significantly altered. In 
> particular, the "family" name (ID 1) has been changed from "TeX Gyre 
> Termes" to "TeXGyreTermes" (which is why I made this suggestion); the 
> "full" name (ID 4) has been changed from "TeX Gyre Termes" to  
> "TeXGyreTermes-Regular" (in the case of the regular face, obviously);  
> and a "preferred family" name (ID 16) has been added with the original  
> name "TeX Gyre Termes".

I'm not sure if this can be considered a FotnForge bug or feature,
FontForge issues the following warning when I open the original fonts:

Warning: Mac and Windows entries in the 'name' table differ for the
  Family string in the language English (US)
  Mac String: TeX Gyre Termes
  Windows String: TeXGyreTermes
Warning: Mac and Windows entries in the 'name' table differ for the
  Fullname string in the language English (US)
  Mac String: TeX Gyre Termes
  Windows String: TeXGyreTermes-Regular

And indeed, fontconfig reports that the font has two fullnames with lang
'en':
	fullname: "TeXGyreTermes-Regular"(s) "TeX Gyre Termes"(s)
	fullnamelang: "en"(s) "en"(s)

Which is think FontForge tries to fix by using the first of entry.

Regards,
 Khaled


-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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