[XeTeX] Finished testing Adobe OpenType Font Folio on the Mac

[Jonathan Kew]

On 5 Jul 2006, at 6:24 pm, William Adams wrote:

> On Jul 5, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> (re: Bernhard Std not creating a .pdf)
>
>> In that case I guess xdvipdfmx is
>> probably failing for some reason. Don't suppose running it manually
>> from the command line reveals anything?
>
> It does.
>
> ** ERROR ** Cannot proceed without the "native" font: BernhardStd-
> BoldCondensed (Bernhard Std Bold Condensed)...
>
> Output file removed.

That explains the absence of the PDF .... xdvipdfmx will delete the  
(partial) output if something fails badly, rather than leaving an  
invalid file that might cause major problems for a viewer.

You could try "xetex -no-pdf testfile.tex" to get an .xdv file, and  
then "xdvipdfmx -vv testfile.xdv" to see if there are any additional  
clues in the messages generated in "very verbose" mode. You might be  
able to tell whether it is finding the font file but can't actually  
load it, or simply not finding it at all.

JK