[tex-live] XeTeX or xdvipdfmx Broken on Mac

Richard Koch richardmoncriefkoch at icloud.com
Fri Apr 24 18:23:13 CEST 2015


Folks,

Here is detailed information on the console output when fonts failed. Two
fonts on my list are actually OK: Ayuthaya and Mangla Singham MN (the
first two). Bad spellings in my source code. Here is new source code for
part 1 of the test:

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Here is the ACTUAL list of bad fonts, about 16 fonts out of 215 on the Mac:

GB18030 Bitmap
Message from kpathsea: Invalid fontname, 'GB18030 Bitmap" contains ? '
ttf font

Hannotate SC
xdvipdfmx:fatal: sfnt: table not found
ttc font

Hannotate TC
Message from kpathsea: Invalid fontname, 'Hannotate TC', contains ? '
ttc font

HanziPen SC
xdvipdfmx:fatal: sfnt: table not found
ttc font

HanziPen TC
Message from kpathsea: Invalid fontname, 'HanziPen TC', contains ? '
ttc font

HeadLineA
xdvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid font: -1 (65)
ttf font

ITF Devanagari
xdvipdfmx:fatal: sfnt: table not found
ttc font

Kohinoor Devanagari
xdvipdfmx:fatal: sfnt: table not found
ttc font

Osaka
xdvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid font: -1 (48)
ttf font

PCMyungjo
xdvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid font: -1 (50)
ttf font

PilGi
xdvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid font: -1 (51)
ttf font

Skia
xdvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid font: -1 (68)
ttf font

Yuppy SC
xdvipdfmx:fatal: CFF: Parsing CFF DICT failed. (error=-1)
otffont

Yuppy TC
xdvipdfmx:fatal: CFF: Parsing CFF DICT failed. (error=-1)
otffont

Apple Chancery
xdvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid font: -1 (28)
ttf font

Apple Color Emoji
Message from kpathsea: Invalid fontname, 'Apple Color Emoji', contains ? '
ttf font

The font type information above comes from Herbert Schulz, who reports that XeTeX has always had problems
with Skia. The problem with Kohinoor Devanagari was reported also under TL 2014.

I will eventually repeat these tests under TeX Live 2014 and report back. But perhaps this is the
important information for dividing up the task of debugging and fixing (when possible).

Dick Koch






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