[tex-live] Problems with Nafees fonts

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/8/31 Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com>:
> On 31 Aug 2011, at 12:51, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>
>> 2011/8/31 Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>:
>>>> Well obviously xdvipdfmx can't find the font. I get the same error
>>>> message if I first generate the xdv, then remove the font, and then
>>>> call xdvipdfmx.
>>>
>>> Here (windows) xdvipdfmx can find the font by
>>> \setmainfont[Script=Arabic]{Nafees Nastaleeq}:
>>>
>> Thank you for the test, I removed bidi but I still get the same error.
>> Thus is seems to be an OS specific problem, maybe in XeTeX, maybe in
>> fontspec, maybe in xdvipdfmx (I cannot find a contact to an author of
>> xdvipdfmx). I have placed all relevant mails, the source file and the
>> log file at
>> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/NafeesBug/
>>
>> I can try it on i386 in Fedora 13 and if needed, I can build TL
>> binaries from svn repository, if you modify the sources and if it
>> helps testing.
>
> My guess is that this is related to fontconfig behavior, and some kind of oddity or mismatch in the font's name table.
>
> What version of fontconfig is present on your machine? If it's not fairly up-to-date, it might be worth trying a more recent one.
>
Finally I tried on Fedora 13 with newer fontconfig and it works.
Unfortunatelly, I cannot afford to upgrade Linux on other computers
and compilation fo the latest fontconfig from the git sources may be
difficult or even impossible with libraries from RPM's, so it seems I
will have to live without the Nafees fonts :-(
SIL Scheherazade is a beautiful font containing Urdu characters but I
need Nastaleeq style...

> (BTW, the xetex list would probably be a better place for this thread than the tex-live one.)
>
> JK
>
>



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