[XeTeX] ** ERROR ** sfnt: Freetype failure...

[talazem at fastmail.fm]

I have just run the two problematic files through a piece of Mac software called "textsoap", which "cleans up" the text. Apparently, there were some hidden, offending glyphs or characters that were causing the problem. The file now compiles fine using Baskerville 10 Pro.

Many thanks for your time.
Talal

On 28 Jul 2010, at 11:38, talazem at fastmail.fm wrote:

> Strange. The font is a contemporary font, produced as I said by StormType Foundry. It is an .odt font. I have successfully typeset an entire book using this font with XeLaTeX earlier this year. Just to check that my system hasn't changed somehow, I opened up the .tex file of that book again and recompiled, and it typeset fine.
> 
> The document I am currently trying to typeset, and getting errors with, has a master document and calls upon five further documents by use of the \include command. I've just commented out all five further documents, and uncommented them one by one. The error seems to occur with two of the documents. However, I can't figure out what is any different about these two (in regards to the font choice).
> 
> Thank you for your help Pete. Does anyone else have an idea of why the discrepancy?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Talal
> 
> On 28 Jul 2010, at 09:18, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Am 28.07.2010 um 04:41 schrieb talazem at fastmail.fm:
>> 
>>> ** ERROR ** sfnt: Freetype failure...
>> 
>> 
>> This proprietary Classic Mac font format is not supported. By good reason: it neither exhibits features nor does it have tables useful for typesetting.
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>> Greetings
>> 
>> Pete
>> 
>> The human brain operates at only 10% of its capacity. The rest is overhead for the operating system.
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