[XeTeX] Odd font behavior

[Herbert Schulz]

On Mar 14, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Stephen Moye wrote:

> On Mar 13, 2011, at 5:09 PM, David Perry wrote:
> 
>> I'm having a similar problem.  In a font I'm developing, some characters won't print in XeLaTeX, even though they are fine in Word and Notepad (Windows, obviously, not Mac).  They display correctly if I set the font in my editor (TeXworks) to be the font I'm working on, but they don't show in the TeX-generated PDF on screen or in print.  Word puts them into a PDF without trouble.  I doublechecked the Unicode values in my font editor and saw nothing amiss.  It so happens that some of these characters in the PUA and others in Plane 1; I'm not sure whether that has anything to do with the problem.
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> On 3/13/2011 3:52 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:
>>> Three things. First, here is a minimal file that fails to print correctly
>>> 
>>> %%===8><---%%
>>> 
>>> % !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>>> % !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX
>>> 
>>> \documentclass{article}
>>> 
>>> \usepackage{xltxtra}
>>> \setmainfont{PFChampionScriptPro-Regular}
>>> 
>>> \begin{document}
>>> 
>>> % This prints:
>>> This is some text
>>> 
>>> % This does not print, though it previews:
>>> \char"EF6C\par %% Also tried using XeTeXglyph
>>> \end{document}
>>> 
>>> %%===8><---%%
>>> 
>>> Second, I tried the old XeLaTeX-xdv2pdf engine with the same results.
>>> 
>>> Third, I tried the brute force approach:
>>> 
>>> \font\test="PFChampionScriptPro-Regular" at 18pt \test
>>> 
>>> Likewise to no avail.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Stephen Moye
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 13, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm trying to use a font with some ornaments in it -- they are rather large and complex. I'm using TeXLive2010, and XeLaTeX that shipped with it. I am also on a Mac, running Mac OS X 10.6.6.
>>>> 
>>>> The ornaments preview perfectly, but will not print. I have cleaned out the font caches. I have reinstalled the font. I am able to print the characters from other applications.
>>>> 
>>>> This is a real puzzle, and new to me. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>>> 
>>>> 
> 
> Now I'm really confused -- and not a little concerned. At home (where I first experienced the problem) I have an inkjet printer (Brother). I brought my conundrum to work where we have PostScript printers, on which the files print perfectly with all of the ornament characters showing up. Heartening, in a way, but I don't know where to begin to diagnose this issue at home. Again, any insights would be welcome...
> 
> Stephen

Howdy,

That sure makes it sound like a Printer Driver problem.

At one time there were some extended math characters (dotted overbraces, etc.) that didn't print on my Brother Laser Printer with the normal driver but when I switched to a PostScript Clone driver for the same pringer everything started to print perfectly.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)