[OS X TeX] Loading Skia Bold in TexShop

[James A Mingo]

Thanks Herb,

I see that Skia Bold works in Apple software like TextEdit but not in others like Adobe Illustrator. So this is probably not a LaTeX specific problem.


Jamie Mingo


On Apr 19, 2014, at 3:16 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 19, 2014, at 1:13 PM, James A Mingo <mingo at mast.queensu.ca> wrote:
> 
>> I have been trying to use xelatex with the Skia font that comes with Mavericks (10.9.2). I am using texlive2013 and TeXShop 3.18, all recently installed.
>> 
>> When I run:
>> 
>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>> \begin{document}
>>  \fontspec[BoldFont={Skia},
>>   BoldFeatures={Weight=2}]{Skia}
>> \fontsize{14pt}{20pt}\selectfont
>> Skia \quad \bfseries Skia `Bold'
>> \end{document}
>> 
>> using xelatex, I get output in Skia Regular, including the part \bfseries Skia `Bold’. Since this snippet is straight out of the fontspec documentation. I presume this is the correct way to load the font whose postscript name is “Skia-Regular_Bold”.
>> 
>> Is this the correct way to load Skia Bold? 
>> 
>> Jamie Mingo.
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Hopefully others will give more information but Skia seems to have been broken under xetex for a long time. There was (is?) a Skia test file that, at some time on the long past, produced a table of many Skia weights and spreads and that hasn't worked in years.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> 
> 
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