[XeTeX] A problem with XeTeX 0.5

[Stephen Moye]

On Apr 29, 2004, at 5:47 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> Hmmm.... sounds like your psfonts.map file doesn't include the 
> expected entry. New in 0.5 is that xdv2pdf uses psfonts.map to help 
> locate font files (for fonts that are used in "TFM-based" mode; not 
> for "native" fonts installed in OS X and used without TFMs).
>
> Could you please run
> 	kpsewhich psfonts.map
> to see what .map file is being used, and then look in that file for an 
> entry for cmr10, and let me know what it says?

Here is the output from kpsewhich:

Stephen-Moyes-Computer:~ admin$ kpsewhich psfonts.map
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map

And here is the line in question:

cmr10 CMR10 " TeXf7b6d320Encoding ReEncodeFont " <f7b6d320.enc 
<cmr10.pfb

> Another thing you can do is run "xetex -no-pdf" to get an .xdv file, 
> and then run "xdv2pdf -v" to see whether the font map file is loaded. 
> And "xdv2pdf -d #" with various values of # will give you kpathsearch 
> tracing messages.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On 29 Apr 2004, at 10:30 am, Stephen Moye wrote:
>
>> I use plain TeX. If, with XeTeX 0.4 I typeset a simple document using 
>> CM fonts all is well. With version .5 I get an error message:
>>
>> *** font cmr10 (CMR10: file 'cmr10') not found  )
>>
>> ...and I get a blank pdf. However, if I use, say, Optima Bold 
>> (\font\test=\"Optima Bold at 20pt \test) all is well.
>>
>> All I did was to update to version .5.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
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