[XeTeX] Font not found error
Peter Baker
psb6m at virginia.edu
Thu Jul 2 16:41:42 CEST 2009
Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote:
> Dr J.D. Billett wrote:
>
>
>> But now I can't get xelatex to find it. Instead, I get the
>> following error message:
>>
>> ! Font \zf at basefont="TeX Gyre Termes" at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric
>> (TFM) file
>> or installed font not found.
>> \zf at fontspec ...ntname \zf at suffix " at \f at size pt
>> \unless \ifzf at icu
>> \zf at set@...
>> l.3 ...x-text,Ligatures={Common}]{TeX Gyre Termes}
>
> I have the same OS as you do (10.4.11) and I ran the file first with
> the TL2008 version of TeX Gyre Termes and there was no ffi/ffl
> ligature. Then I ran Khaled Hosny's python script via X11 ... and with
> the corrected version of the font, I get the same error message as you
> do with your example.
>
> I think Mac OS 10.4 has some bug that doesn't work well with FontForge
> for altering fonts.
>
> Does anyone with Leopard have this problem with TeX Gyre Termes ---
> after running Khaled's script?
>
Jesse was using a version of the font I sent him. I altered it in
FontForge just by changing "f f i --> ffi" to "f_f i --> ffi" and tested
in Leopard (10.5). It worked fine. But I had never installed the earlier
version on that system.
I'll send it to Jonathan, as he requests.
Peter
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