[XeTeX] Fonts and Snow Leopard

Mark Moll mmoll at cs.rice.edu
Thu Sep 10 19:57:58 CEST 2009


I'm observing the same behavior. Attached are a minimal tex file and  
resulting PDF. What makes this even more mysterious is that if I copy/ 
paste the text in the pdf to TextEdit.app, I get Helvetica Neue text  
(shown in the screenshot below the Acrobat window). Acrobat's document  
properties say that HelveticaNeue-Light is used...

On Sep 8, 2009, at 5:23 PM, James Townshend wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm a relative novice in the field.
> Since updating to 10.6 my starting code for most documents
> 		 %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> 		 % !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX-xdv2pdf
> 		\usepackage{fontspec,xunicode,xltxtra}
> 		\setmainfont{Helvetica Neue Light}
> only produces text in pdf in helvetica. Switching to a serif font,  
> still produces the same result.
> I reinstalled MacTeX2008 but the issue remains.
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> Many thanks,
> James Townshend
>

-- 
Mark


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