<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I get the same error but with Book Antiqua installed as a system font in /Library/Fonts/Microsoft .<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27 Nov2021, at 12:15 PM, Rowland McDonnell <<a href="mailto:rowland.mcdonnell@physics.org" class="">rowland.mcdonnell@physics.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ve installed MacTeX 2021 on an iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) running macOS 10.15.7.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can use some installed system founts via XeLaTeX and fontspec, but the minimum test document below fails.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Book Antiqua is installed in /Users/rowland/Library/Fonts/Book Antiqua as a font suitcase file. I got the impression that it was an OpenType fount by creating a “Smart Collection” in Fontbook.app that filtered for Kind=OpenType. I have checked the Smart Collection filter setting and it’s definitely Kind=OpenType.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, when I look at the information panel for Book Antiqua in Fontbook.app, it reports that it is TrueType - OpenType is not mentioned.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m baffled. Would anyone be so kind as to explain what’s going on with Fontbook.app - that is, how come I’m filtering for OpenType but being shown something that’s apparently not OpenType, whether or not I can expect to be able to use Book Antiqua, and if so how I might do so?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks in advance,</div><div class="">Rowland.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">===============================================================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">\documentclass{article}<br class=""><br class="">\usepackage{fontspec}<br class=""><br class="">\setmainfont{Book Antiqua}<br class=""><br class="">\begin{document}<br class=""><br class="">Hello world.<br class=""><br class="">\end{document}</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">===============================================================<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Console output is:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">===============================================================<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-0.999993 (TeX Live 2021) (preloaded format=xelatex)<br class=""> restricted \write18 enabled.<br class="">entering extended mode<br class="">(./fontspec fiddling.tex<br class="">LaTeX2e <2020-10-01> patch level 4<br class="">L3 programming layer <2021-02-18><br class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls<br class="">Document Class: article 2020/04/10 v1.4m Standard LaTeX document class<br class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))<br class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty<br class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse.sty<br class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3.sty<br class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-xetex.def<br class="">(|extractbb --version)))<br class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse-2020-10-<br class="">01.sty<br class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse-generic.<br class="">tex)))<br class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec-xetex.sty<br class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty)<br class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg)))<br class="">(./fontspec fiddling.aux)<br class="">(/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd) [1]<br class="">(./fontspec fiddling.aux)<br class="">xdvipdfmx:fatal: Cannot proceed without the font: /Users/rowland/Library/Fonts/Book Antiqua<br class=""><br class="">No output PDF file written.<br class=""> )<br class="">Error 256 (driver return code) generating output;<br class="">file fontspec fiddling.pdf may not be valid.<br class="">SyncTeX written on fontspec fiddling.synctex.gz.<br class="">Transcript written on fontspec fiddling.log.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">===============================================================<br class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="cid:9954FC42-CB5B-494E-ACEB-94C00E0ADDFE@fritz.box"><Book Antiqua.png></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="cid:D66ED6C0-43E9-4D19-8736-21AC2B86229C@fritz.box"><Smart Collection filter.png></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="cid:42815FD3-8149-4D90-9C97-0B5F5898A5A3@fritz.box"><Fontbook showing Book Antiqua.png></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br class="">TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" class="">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br class="">List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/TeX/" class="">https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/TeX/</a><br class="">List Archives: <a href="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx" class="">http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx</a><br class=""> <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/</a><br class="">TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/" class="">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br class="">List Info: <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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