[XeTeX] xdvipdfmx problem with truetype font (Gill Sans)

[Bernhard Barkow]

On 2008-02-02, at 17:12, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>> When I deactivate GillSans.dfont's TrueType fonts (and leave the
>> PostScript fonts activated) then xdvipdfmx still fails.
>
> Because those are LWFN fonts, which are a legacy Mac-only packaging
> format (with PostScript code in resources); xdvipdfmx doesn't yet
> know how to handle them. A patch would be welcome.

Thank you, this explains it all - so it might be possible to use LWFN  
fonts by converting them using fondu, for example? (Apart from the  
conflict with both TrueType and Type 1 fonts enabled, of course.)
I have to try that later…

Bernhard



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