[OS X TeX] General Font Question -- Solved!

[Herbert Schulz]

Howdy,

You should find xelatex engines that use the xdv2dvi driver in ~/ 
Library/TeXShop/Engines/Inactive/XeTeX/ (or something like that ---  
I'm not at my system right now).

Good Luck,
Herb Schulz


On Mar 13, 2010, at 2:19 PM, David Derbes <loki at uchicago.edu> wrote:

>
> On Mar 13, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 13.03.2010 um 18:55 schrieb David Derbes:
>>
>>> Error 256 (driver return code) generating output;
>>
>> Did you try to use xdv2pdf as output driver as Jonathan suggested?  
>> With xdv2pdf it should even work to use PostScript fonts because  
>> they're converted on-the-fly to OTF format...
>>
>
> It did. I opened up a Terminal window, made sure the example was in  
> the directory, and typed, as Jonathan instructed,
>
> derbes$ xelatex -output-driver=xdv2pdf provence_example.tex
>
> (followed by "enter")
>
> and it worked.
>
> So, if Manuel is still following this thread, he can do what he  
> wants. I could not see how to invoke xdv2pdf in TeXShop, though.
>
> Thanks to you, Peter, and to Jonathan.
>
> David Derbes
> U of Chicago Lab Schools
>
>> --
>> Greetings
>>
>> Pete
>>
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