[XeTeX] Type 1 font in ASCII format

[Jonathan Kew]

On 11 Jul 2007, at 11:37 am, Suki Venkat wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have Utopia fonts in my Linux machine which don't render in XeTeX  
> (it says "output file removed").
> Does XeTeX work with fonts in *.pfa format?
> Or should I ask: Will FreeType2 work with *.pfa fonts?
>

The "output file removed" message comes from xdvipdfmx when it is  
unable to proceed.

I think you'll find that xetex itself works (you can run xetex -no- 
pdf and get a valid .xdv file), because Freetype2 can handle .pfa  
fonts, but the conversion to pdf is failing because xdvipdfmx doesn't  
support them. (And so the .xdv file is useless to you.)

It would be nice to add this support to xdvipdfmx sometime, but  
hasn't been a priority for me, as .pfa fonts don't seem to be in high  
demand. A patch would be welcome, if anyone wants to work on this. :-)

JK