[XeTeX] Font corruption (?) problem

[Karljurgen Feuerherm]

Addendum:

This time, removing and reinstalling the font corrected the problem.
Doesn't seem to be consistent...

KF

>>> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:51 AM, in message
<4CD54153.94AB.00CC.0 at wlu.ca>,
"Karljurgen Feuerherm" <kfeuerherm at wlu.ca> wrote: 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a peculiar problem that's driving me crazy.
> 
> I'm using a MacBook Pro under Snow Leopard and MacTex, installed a
few
> months back.
> 
> I have a XeTeX source file (see below) which compiled fine, and
> produced a nice PDF. I then copied four lines from the PDF and
pasted
> them into MS Word so I could run a character count. Word told me
there
> was a problem (Bad Font) with the font (Linux Libertine O) and that
it
> would try to disable the font.
> 
> Now, when I compile the source, everything seems to be bold faced...
> though I've changed nothing in the source. So presumably the font
has
> been corrupted somehow... BUT...
> 
> This happened to me the other day, and deleting and replacing the
font
> with a fresh copy didn't help. I then created a new file using
TeXShop's
> XeTeX template and started changing it, a few lines at a time, to
look
> like my old file. This worked fine... until just now when I copied
lines
> into Word.
> 
> I don't see the font listed in the Disabled folder.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what's going on, how to recover most effectively,
> and... how to prevent this from happening (I suppose don't paste into
MS
> Word is the obvious answer, but that shouldn't be a problem
normally,
> should it?)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> K
> =====
> %!TEX TS-program = xelatex
> %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> 
>
\documentclass[12pt,b5paper,onecolumn,twoside,openright,draft,leqno]{memoir}
> 
>
%\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}					%
> Adjust once understood; can't find biblatex.sty
>
\usepackage{bidi}							%
> Bidi must precede xunicode.
> \usepackage{multicol}
>
\usepackage[]{polyglossia}						%
> Polyglossia loads fontspec, so no need to load it separately.
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \usepackage{xstring}
> \usepackage{xunicode}
> 
>
\setdefaultlanguage[variant=british]{english}					%
> Follow UK rather than US standards.
>
\setotherlanguage[]{bulgarian}						%'Bulgarian'
> is really Sumero-Akkadian ;)
> \setotherlanguage[]{french}
>
\setotherlanguage[spelling=old]{german}					%
> Use traditional spellings.
> \setotherlanguage[]{hebrew}
> \setotherlanguage[]{latin}	
> 
>
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text,Numbers=OldStyle,Scale=MatchLowercase}		
> %
> Scale is a safety feature to ensure that the various fonts look good
> together.
> \setmainfont[]{Linux Libertine
> O}						%
> Professional-looking font for body text
> \newfontfamily\bulgarianfont{Linux Biolinum
> O}					% Sans-serif font
> for Sumero-Akkadian
> 
> \setxlvchars
> \setlxvchars
> \setlength{\textwidth}{\the\lxvchars}
> \setlrmargins{*}{*}{2}
> %\isopage
> \checkandfixthelayout
> 
> % Define personal macros
> \newcommand{\tdef}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
> \newcommand{\bktitle}[1]{\textit{#1}}
> 
> \author{Karljürgen G. Feuerherm}
> \title{Introduction to Akkadian\\using\\Late Larsa Texts}
> 
> \begin{document}
> 	\frontmatter
> 	\maketitle
> 	
> 	\include{Preface}
> 	
> 	\mainmatter
> 	
> 	\include{Grammar}
> \end{document}  
> 
> 
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