[XeTeX] Type 1 fonts in W32 XeTeX

[Ralf Stubner]

"Pierre Weil" <pierre.weil at gmail.com> writes:

> I've been using the W32 version of XeTeX for a couple of days and am
> ecstatic to be able to use this wonderful program. However, I'm
> getting some weird behavior when trying to use any type 1 font.
> Namely, words don't seem to stay on one line. I've attached a simple
> example which I generated with
>
> \font\x="Helvetica LT"\x One two three four five.\bye
>
> This happens with every type 1 font I've tried, but of course opentype
> fonts work perfectly. I don't know whether this is a problem with the
> W32 port or if XeTeX is not meant to support type 1 fonts at all, but
> regardless I am quite stumped.

I can reproduce this behaviour on Linux with various fonts (XeTeX Rev
292, xdvipdfmx Rev 38):

\font\a="Bitstream Charter" at 10pt 
\a one two three

\font\b="URW Bookman L" at 10pt 
\b one two three

\font\b="URW Gothic L" at 10pt 
\b one two three
\bye

In addition, with "URW Bookman L" the glyphs are offset by one, ie I get
'nmd svn sgqdd'. I am sure that Type 1 fonts worked at some point.

cheerio
ralf