[XeTeX] Font Location Issue?

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Wed Jul 24 21:24:47 CEST 2013


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 02:56:48PM -0400, William Adams wrote:
> On Jul 24, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
> 
> > The only thing I notice is the the Stone Sans ITC TT font in
> > /Library/Fonts has no extension and its icon is FFIL (sorry, I don't
> > know what that means) rather than TTF. Sounds like it's rather
> > ancient.
> > 
> > Perhaps the major change in TeX Live 2013 is a complete re-write of
> > XeTeX using modern technology.
> 
> I suspect it's more likely to be that the back-end was changed to
> xdvipdfmx and Mac-resource-fork fonts aren't supported.

The error is from XeTeX itself, so this is related to engine changes.
Does anyone knows other resource fork fonts that I can test? Though I
recall testing at least one such font and it worked fine.

Regards,
Khaled


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