[XeTeX] Odd font behavior

[David Perry]

I'm having a similar problem.  In a font I'm developing, some characters 
won't print in XeLaTeX, even though they are fine in Word and Notepad 
(Windows, obviously, not Mac).  They display correctly if I set the font 
in my editor (TeXworks) to be the font I'm working on, but they don't 
show in the TeX-generated PDF on screen or in print.  Word puts them 
into a PDF without trouble.  I doublechecked the Unicode values in my 
font editor and saw nothing amiss.  It so happens that some of these 
characters in the PUA and others in Plane 1; I'm not sure whether that 
has anything to do with the problem.

David

On 3/13/2011 3:52 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:
> Three things. First, here is a minimal file that fails to print correctly
>
> %%===8><---%%
>
> % !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> % !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX
>
> \documentclass{article}
>
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \setmainfont{PFChampionScriptPro-Regular}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> % This prints:
> This is some text
>
> % This does not print, though it previews:
> \char"EF6C\par %% Also tried using XeTeXglyph
> \end{document}
>
> %%===8><---%%
>
> Second, I tried the old XeLaTeX-xdv2pdf engine with the same results.
>
> Third, I tried the brute force approach:
>
> \font\test="PFChampionScriptPro-Regular" at 18pt \test
>
> Likewise to no avail.
>
>
> Stephen Moye
>
>
>
> On Mar 13, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to use a font with some ornaments in it -- they are rather large and complex. I'm using TeXLive2010, and XeLaTeX that shipped with it. I am also on a Mac, running Mac OS X 10.6.6.
>>
>> The ornaments preview perfectly, but will not print. I have cleaned out the font caches. I have reinstalled the font. I am able to print the characters from other applications.
>>
>> This is a real puzzle, and new to me. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>
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>>
>> Stephen Moye
>> sgmoye at me.com
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