[XeTeX] xetex can't find font

Orm Finnendahl o.finnendahl at inm.mh-freiburg.de
Sat Mar 31 18:36:35 CEST 2012


Hi Khaled,

Am Samstag, den 31. März 2012 um 18:11:03 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Khaled Hosny:
> can you attach a minimal document that fails for you, are
> the font definition exactly the same when you try under different
> engines?

Document is attached. Below is the output of the different commands
(tex, eplain, pdftex, dvips and xetex) on the file (or its dvi file).
It works (and the documents look as expected) with all programs except
for xetex.

Yours,
Orm


tex:

> orm at varese:~/work/texte/sonstiges$ tex test02.tex
> This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
> (./test02.tex [1] )
> Output written on test02.dvi (1 page, 272 bytes).
> Transcript written on test02.log.
> orm at varese:~/work/texte/sonstiges$ 

dvips:

> orm at varese:~/work/texte/sonstiges$ dvips test02.dvi
> This is dvips(k) 5.98 Copyright 2009 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2012.03.31:1827' -> test02.ps
> </usr/share/texmf-texlive/dvips/base/tex.pro>
> </usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/enc/dvips/base/8r.enc>
> </usr/share/texmf-texlive/dvips/base/texps.pro>. 
> </usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
> </usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/scala_sans/fssb8a.pfa>[1] 
> orm at varese:~/work/texte/sonstiges$ 

eplain:

> orm at varese:~/work/texte/sonstiges$ eplain test02.tex
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
> entering extended mode
> (./test02.tex
> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
> yphenation, ngerman, german, german-x-2009-06-19, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, romania
> n, irish, coptic, serbian, turkish, welsh, esperanto, uppersorbian, estonian, i
> ndonesian, interlingua, icelandic, kurmanji, slovenian, loaded.
> [1] )
> Output written on test02.dvi (1 page, 272 bytes).
> Transcript written on test02.log.
> orm at varese:~/work/texte/sonstiges$ 

pdftex:

> orm at varese:~/work/texte/sonstiges$ pdftex test02.tex
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
> entering extended mode
> (./test02.tex [1{/home/orm/.texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] ){/u
> sr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/enc/dvips/base/8r.enc}</usr/share/texmf-texlive/fo
> nts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb></usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/pu
> blic/scala_sans/fssb8a.pfa>
> Output written on test02.pdf (1 page, 11488 bytes).
> Transcript written on test02.log.
> orm at varese:~/work/texte/sonstiges$ 


xetex:

> orm at varese:~/work/texte/sonstiges$ xetex test02.tex
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
> entering extended mode
> (./test02.tex [1]
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 fssb8a.pfa
> mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for fssb8a.pfa.
> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

> ** WARNING ** Could not locate a virtual/physical font for TFM "fssb8r".
> ** WARNING ** >> This font is mapped to a physical font "fssb8a.pfa".
> ** WARNING ** >> Please check if kpathsea library can find this font: fssb8a.pfa
> ** ERROR ** Cannot proceed without .vf or "physical" font for PDF output...

> Output file removed.
>  )
> Error 256 (driver return code) generating output;
> file test02.pdf may not be valid.
> Transcript written on test02.log.
> orm at varese:~/work/texte/sonstiges$ 
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