[XeTeX] xetex can't find font

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 06:36:35PM +0200, Orm Finnendahl wrote:
> xetex:
> 
> > orm at varese:~/work/texte/sonstiges$ xetex test02.tex
> > This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
> > entering extended mode
> > (./test02.tex [1]
> > kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 fssb8a.pfa
> > mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for fssb8a.pfa.
> > kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
> 
> > ** WARNING ** Could not locate a virtual/physical font for TFM "fssb8r".
> > ** WARNING ** >> This font is mapped to a physical font "fssb8a.pfa".
> > ** WARNING ** >> Please check if kpathsea library can find this font: fssb8a.pfa
> > ** ERROR ** Cannot proceed without .vf or "physical" font for PDF output...
> 
> > Output file removed.
> >  )
> > Error 256 (driver return code) generating output;
> > file test02.pdf may not be valid.
> > Transcript written on test02.log.
> > orm at varese:~/work/texte/sonstiges$ 

I highly suspect this is a xdvipdfmx issue, since the engine wouldn't
need to real font at all. IIRC, old versions of (x)dvipdfmx had its own
map file, so it might be that updmap(-sys) failed to update it for some
reason. Running xdvipdfmx -v on the xdv file, will print the loaded map
files in the first line, you can then check them and see if the font is
there or not.

Regards,
 Khaled