[XeTeX] xdvipdfmx fails on synthetically-slanted fonts

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 07:59:23AM +0900, Takayuki YATO (ZR) wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> When I typeset a XeTeX document that contains fonts with slant
> (extend, embolden) specified by two-step process (compiling with
> "xetex -no-pdf" and then converting with "xdvipdfmx"), xdvipdfmx
> fails with showing the following error message:
> 
> C>xdvipdfmx pev.xdv
> pev.xdv -> pev.pdf
> [1
> ** ERROR ** TFM: Invalid TFM ID: 0
> 
> Output file removed.

Something weired is happening here, doing:
 cat pev.xdv | xdvipdfmx  > pev.pdf

(which is more or less what xetex does) works fine, but passing file
name directly in the command line didn't.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer