[tex-live] XeTeX or xdvipdfmx Broken on Mac

[Jiang Jiang]

Hi Richard,

Do you mind testing with these fonts again? Most of the Mac TrueType
fonts support should be fixed by r37043.

- Jiang

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Richard Koch
<richardmoncriefkoch at icloud.com> wrote:
> Folks,
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> 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:
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> GB18030 Bitmap
> Message from kpathsea: Invalid fontname, 'GB18030 Bitmap" contains ‘ '
> ttf font
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> Hannotate SC
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: sfnt: table not found
> ttc font
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> Hannotate TC
> Message from kpathsea: Invalid fontname, 'Hannotate TC', contains ‘ '
> ttc font
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> HanziPen SC
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: sfnt: table not found
> ttc font
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> HanziPen TC
> Message from kpathsea: Invalid fontname, 'HanziPen TC', contains ‘ '
> ttc font
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> HeadLineA
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid font: -1 (65)
> ttf font
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> ITF Devanagari
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: sfnt: table not found
> ttc font
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> Kohinoor Devanagari
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: sfnt: table not found
> ttc font
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> Osaka
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid font: -1 (48)
> ttf font
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> PCMyungjo
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid font: -1 (50)
> ttf font
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> PilGi
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid font: -1 (51)
> ttf font
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> Skia
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid font: -1 (68)
> ttf font
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> Yuppy SC
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: CFF: Parsing CFF DICT failed. (error=-1)
> otffont
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> Yuppy TC
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: CFF: Parsing CFF DICT failed. (error=-1)
> otffont
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> Apple Chancery
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid font: -1 (28)
> ttf font
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> Apple Color Emoji
> Message from kpathsea: Invalid fontname, 'Apple Color Emoji', contains ‘ '
> ttf font
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> 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.
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> 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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