[OS X TeX] TL 2015, XeTeX and System Fonts

[Michael Sharpe]

> On Jul 6, 2015, at 6:35 AM, seroul <seroul at unistra.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
> Bonjour tout le monde,
> 
> Consider the following XeTeX plain file which uses the Apple font
> 
> 	/Users/bibi/Library/Fonts/Textile
> 
> %-----------------------------------------------------------------
> % !TEX TS-program = XeTeX
> % !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> 
> \font\txtil 	= "Textile" at 10pt
> \font\rm 		= "Palatino" at 12pt
> 
> {\txtil Hélène se dépêchait. Un effort inouï. Un cœur d'or.}
> 
> \bigskip
> 
> {\rm  Hélène se dépêchait. Un effort inouï. Un cœur d'or.}
> 
> \bye
> %————————————————————————————————
> 
> TeX Live 2012, 2013, 2014 : no problem.
> 
> TeX Live 2015 : error —>
> 
> 	xdvipdfmx:fatal: Cannot proceed without the font: /Users/bibi/Library/Fonts/Textile
> 
> When I put the Textile font in System/Library/Fonts, I get the same message....
> 
> Any suggestion ?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Raymond Séroul (Université de Strasbourg)
> 

My copy of Textile is very old, from 1999, v3.1.2b4, and I experienced the same error message you reported. I then opened Textile with FontForge, then File->Generate Fonts, choosing to save as a ttf. This saved a font named TextileRegular.dfont, which I moved to ~/Library/Fonts, removing the old Textile. That now works in your test file using either "Textile" or "TextileRegular" as the name.

Michael