[XeTeX] Segmentation Fault

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Richard Koch wrote:

> Herb,
> 
> Sure enough, on my copy of Snow Leopard as well, installing the Combo release fixed the segmentation fault. This is a little scary!
> 
> As for xdv2pdf, I don't easily know how to test it. Are you saying that this is not an important issue because xdvipdfmx works, or is it still important?
> 
> Dick

Howdy,

Under Snow Leopard several system wide fonts (e.g., Hoefler Text) were converted from ttf to ttc and the original xdvipdfmx failed. Fortunately xdv3pdf still worked. Jonathan fixed up xdvipdfmx and it worked with the ttc fonts until I tried it under 10.6.2 where xdvipdfmx fails again. When I then tried to use xdv2pdf I got empty pdf files (the preview screen comes up but contains nothing). So now we don't have a (temporary) work around except to switch to fonts that work.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)