[XeTeX] XeLaTex and Times Ten fonts

[Jonathan Kew]

On 12 Dec 2009, at 09:22, André Bellaïche wrote:

> I have three Times fonts on my mac: Times (Apple), Times New Roman, Times Ten (bought from Linotype)
> 
> \setmainfont{Times} and \setmainfont{Times New Roman} works perfectly, but
> 
> with \setmainfont{Times Ten} or \setmainfont{Times Ten LT}
> 
> I get the following error message:
> 
> ==============================
> ** ERROR ** Invalid font: -1 (0)
> 
> Output file removed.
> )
> Error 256 (driver return code) generating output;
> file ESSAI2.pdf may not be valid.
> Transcript written on ESSAI2.log.
> ==============================
> 
> Is this a known issue?
> 

Is your Times Ten font is a "classic" Mac PostScript font (packaged as two parts, a PostScript font file with file type LWFN, containing the PostScript code in a series of resources, and a "suitcase" file of type FFIL containing bitmaps)? If so then yes, this is a known issue: the xdvipdfmx output driver does not handle LWFN fonts.

If you really need to use this particular font rather than the other flavors of Times, the xdv2pdf driver should handle it, although there have been reports of this crashing on 10.6, so that might be a problem too. Also note that such a font is likely to have a much more limited character set than the newer Times or TNR fonts, and probably lacks automatic ligatures and kerning.

JK