[tex-live] XeTeX or xdvipdfmx Broken on Mac
Khaled Hosny
khaledhosny at eglug.org
Fri Apr 24 19:24:43 CEST 2015
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 05:41:07PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote:
>
>
> Richard Koch wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> This name would be acceptable in raw XeTeX, as :
>
> \font \whatever = "GB18030 Bitmap"
>
> I have no knowledge of the LaTeX interface to platform fonts, but it
> might be worth adding the additional string quotes to see if that can
> help here.
The message is misleading, what happens is that XeTeX finds that it is a
bitmap-only font and refuses to load it. Fonts not loaded in the first
pass goes through a fallback mechanism that try to load them the old way
as TFM fonts, which gives this kpathsea message.
Regards,
Khaled
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