[XeTeX] xetex can't find font

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 06:19:50PM +0200, Orm Finnendahl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  thanks for the help. I wasn't aware of xetex's capabilities to use
> systemwide installed fonts. Including them like this works ootb (I
> already had these fonts installed):
> 
> \font\rm="ScalaSans-Regular" at 14 pt \rm Hello World!
> 
> There is one drawback though: I have generated all kinds of virtual
> fonts, a fake SmallCaps font etc. All tfm, vf, afm files in all kinds
> of different encodings are in their respective folders (and they are
> all found with kpsewhich). As I'm using them for years now I really
> would like to get it working in xetex with TeX's default mechanism
> (the main reason for the switch to xetex is its utf-8
> support). Otherwise I'd be stuck with the supplied PostScript fonts
> only.
> 
> If xetex is capable of using kpathsea, is there a way to debug the
> problem by finding, which part of the program is stuck where?

It should work, AFAIK. This might be a xdvipdfmx issue, if you run xetex
--no-pdf does it fail? if not, then try running xdvipdfmx on the
resulting xdv file with various verbosity levels and see what is going
on.

Regards,
 Khaled