[XeTeX] Fonts and Snow Leopard

[Herbert Schulz]

On Sep 10, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Sep 10, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Mark Moll wrote:
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>> 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
>>
>>
>> <helvneue.tex><helvneue.pdf><acrobatvstextedit.png>
>
> Howdy,
>
> The embedded font in the supplied pdf file is, indeed, Helvetica  
> Neue Light according to Acrobat Reader. If I use
>
> \setmainfont{Helvetica Neue}
>
> Adobe Reader reports that it is Helvetica Neue even though thee two  
> look the same in both Preview and Adobe Reader. The don't appear the  
> same in Font Book. Don't know where the bug is but it sounds like a  
> rendering problem.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>

Howdy,

I now see that Helvetica Neue are ttc fonts in Snow Leopard and  
xdvipdfmx is known to not have full support for ttc fonts: there was a  
previous problem noted about Hoefler Text which are also ttc fonts.  
You should be able to use xdvi2pdf as the back end instead of xdvipdfmx.

In TeXShop you van get engines to do that for you. There should be the  
XeTeX- and XeLaTeX-xdvi2pdf engines in ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ 
Inactive/XeTeX/ shihc need only be moved up to ~/Library/TeXShop/ 
Engines/ (two directories up) to activate them.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)