[XeTeX] xelatex.fmt not found after update

[Stefano Franchi]

On Oct 19, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 19 Oct 2005, at 5:42 pm, Stefano Franchi wrote:
>
>> However, I can't get XeTeX to work yet. If I try to compile one of 
>> the sample documents from TeXShop I get the following in the  TeXShop 
>> console:
>>
>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.98 (Web2C 7.5.3)
>> entering extended mode
>> (./font-features.tex [1] )
>> Output written on font-features.pdf (1 page).
>> Transcript written on font-features.log.
>>
>> but no .pdf file is generated and no error messages are reported in 
>> the .log file. If I try directly from the command line I get the 
>> following:
>>
>> thrasymachus:~/Desktop/XeTeX-doc/Samples stefano$ xetex 
>> font-features.tex
>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.98 (Web2C 7.5.3)
>> entering extended mode
>> (./font-features.tex [1] )
>> kCGErrorFailure : can't find font object for font id.
>> Output written on font-features.pdf (1 page).
>> Transcript written on font-features.log.
>
> Hmmm.... that's a bit worrying; I'm not sure what's wrong here. 
> Clearly something to do with fonts. That document uses Apple Chancery 
> and Zapfino, but you must have them available or you would have seen a 
> "Font not loadable..." message. Apparently XeTeX found them and 
> finished, but then something went wrong when xdv2pdf was trying to 
> generate the PDF.
>
> Could you see if there is a "xdv2pdf.crash.log" file, probably in 
> ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/, and send to me?
>
> If you try files that use different fonts (e.g., try 
> "PicFileSample.tex"), does it still have problems, or is it one of 
> these fonts in particular that's giving trouble for you?
>
> Jonathan


Hi Jonathan,
	
	indeed there is a crash log for xdv2pdf. I enclose it below. I tried 
several examples from the samples folder, all failed silently 
(including PicFileSample), with the exception of OpenTypeSamples which 
produced a pdf file (I do have one of  the otf fonts it uses).

Cheers,

Stefano

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