[XeTeX] XeTeX+Tiger+OpenType bug

[Stephen Moye]

On Tuesday, August 16, 2005, at 05:57AM, Will Robertson <will at guerilla.net.au> wrote:

>12 Aug 2005, 7:37 PM - Stephen Moye wrote:
>
>
>> I think I need a little help. When Will posted the (presumably  
>> plain) TeX sample:
>>
>> %!TEX TS-program = xetex
>> %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>>
>> \font\1="Minion Pro"\1 Regular
>> \font\1="Minion Pro/I"\1 Italic?
>> \bye
>>
>> (the %! stuff was not in his original) I tried it, and, I think,  
>> found no problem. I'm not sure in the discussion that has followed,  
>> therefore, just what the problem is. Could someone please fill in  
>> those gaps for me?
>>
>
>I'm not entirely sure what the gaps are myself.
>It seems to consistently fail for only some OpenType fonts on my  
>system. When I say fail, I mean that the italic font is not  
>automatically found and the plain regular font is used instead, as / 
>I, etc., is supposed to do.
>
>I don't have Minion Pro personally, but I've a report of fontspec  
>failing for the font that this user had. I see a similar problem with  
>Warnock Pro. The "Adobe ... Pro"-named fonts seem to work fine, though.
>
>This is separate from a XeTeX bug in which trying to choose "Apple  
>Symbol/I" brings up an actual error message.
>
>Will

I don't know if this is related at all, but I was rooting around in the /Applications/Utilities/Console output after I had typeset your sample and found this:

Aug 16 11:07:03 SGMOSX xdv2pdf: WARNING: Type1 font data returned by OFAStreamPSDownload isn't in the correct format required by the Adobe Type 1 Font Format specification.

Again, it typeset perfectly, but there seems to be something amiss nonetheless.

Thanks for getting back to me.

SGM