[XeTeX] A problem with XeTeX 0.5

[Jonathan Kew]

On 29 Apr 2004, at 3:11 pm, Ross Moore wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> On 29/04/2004, at 7:47 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>> Hmmm.... sounds like your psfonts.map file doesn't include the 
>> expected entry. New in 0.5 is that xdv2pdf uses psfonts.map to help 
>> locate font files (for fonts that are used in "TFM-based" mode; not 
>> for "native" fonts installed in OS X and used without TFMs).
>
> The CM fonts now work for me, in this revision of XeTeX.
> Thanks for the new strategy, and all those .otf  fonts.
> Do you have an easy explanation for why it didn't work
> previously ?
>
> Tracing of  xdv2pdf  shows that the CM .tfm  files are found,
> as is  psfonts.map  , but I don't see anywhere that indicates
> how or where it found the .otf  font files.
>

Do you have the Textures versions installed on your system? If so, 
those will be used (as I believe the font names match), and it won't 
ever go looking for the .otf files.

Jonathan