[XeTeX] xelatex.fmt not found after update

[Stefano Franchi]

On Oct 19, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 19 Oct 2005, at 4:46 pm, Stefano Franchi wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 19, 2005, at 3:14 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> On 6 Oct 2005, at 6:39 pm, Florian Grammel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> After the recommended update from TL2004 to TL2005 using the i-
>>>>> installer reinstalling XeTeX didn't work for me.
> <snip>
>
>> BTW, the error message I get when trying to run XeTeX (or XLaTeX) 
>> from TeXShop is the following:
>>
>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.94 (Web2C 7.5.3)
>> ---! /Users/stefano/Library/texmf/web2c/xelatex.fmt doesn't match 
>> xetex.pool
>> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>>
>
> I notice that this is an old release of XeTeX (see the version 
> number); you should update your i-Package to the latest release, 
> especially if using TL2005. Perhaps you already did so; in that case, 
> maybe you have an old version somewhere on your system outside of the 
> TeX installation, which survived the update/reinstall process and is 
> being found instead of the new one.
>
> JK

That was it! Locate found an old version of XeTeX installed by fink in 
/sw/bin which wasn't removed by the uninstall procedure. How stupid of 
me.
However, I can't get XeTeX to work yet. If I try to compile one of the 
sample documents from TeXShop I get the following in the  TeXShop 
console:

This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.98 (Web2C 7.5.3)
entering extended mode
(./font-features.tex [1] )
Output written on font-features.pdf (1 page).
Transcript written on font-features.log.

but no .pdf file is generated and no error messages are reported in the 
.log file. If I try directly from the command line I get the following:

thrasymachus:~/Desktop/XeTeX-doc/Samples stefano$ xetex 
font-features.tex
This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.98 (Web2C 7.5.3)
entering extended mode
(./font-features.tex [1] )
kCGErrorFailure : can't find font object for font id.
Output written on font-features.pdf (1 page).
Transcript written on font-features.log.




I looked into the documentation file, but couldn't find anything.


Best,

Stefano






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