[XeTeX] Finding a font version

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sun Oct 12 11:59:50 CEST 2014


If you have FontForge, you can opeb the PDF file with it, it will present
you with a list of the fonts in the PDF, select the one you want and you
should be able to open it and check its properties. If the font had its
version correctly set, it should be there.

Regards,
Khaled
 On Oct 12, 2014 11:46 AM, "Zdenek Wagner" <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> some time ago GNU FreeFont worked well with Devanagari but I did not
> write the exact version used. Recently I have updated to the latest
> revision from the repository and there are problems again. I no longer
> have the working version of the font, only a few files. The log file
> does not display the font version and I do not know whether it is
> possible to extract the font information from PDF. It would be very
> useful fr reporting the bugs.
>
> The PDF files can be found at these web pages:
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz/ArunakashKaRasta/
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz/cze-dvng-xkb/
>
> The latter seems to be built with TeX Live 2012 and thus with the old
> version of GNU FreeFont that does not work with HarfBuzz but I am not
> sure. Can anyone help?
>
> --
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:
>   http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/attachments/20141012/fb052988/attachment.html>


More information about the XeTeX mailing list