[XeTeX] Inconsistent rendering across different computers

[Jonathan Kew]

On 22 Jul 2009, at 12:32, Brian Aydemir wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 18:10, Jonathan Kew  
> <jfkthame at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Could you check whether your Linux machine has more than one version  
> of the Minion fonts, by any chance -- e.g., both .otf and .pfb  
> formats, or copies installed both globally in /etc/fonts/ 
> something... and in ~/.fonts for the current user?
>
> There are .pfb formats in ~/texmf (from my local copy of the  
> MinionPro package) and .otf formats in ~/.fonts.  I'm not aware of  
> any other copies on the system (it's not one where I have  
> administrative access).

Aha, that may well be causing confusion, perhaps depending on how you  
have fontconfig set up. I'd suggest you try removing the .pfb files  
(at least temporarily), and see if that makes any difference to the  
result you get.

JK