[XeTeX] xdvipdfmx problem with truetype font (Gill Sans)

Jonathan Kew jonathan_kew at sil.org
Sat Feb 2 17:12:25 CET 2008


On 2 Feb 2008, at 1:13 pm, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> at
> least it can handle PostScript fonts when they were loaded via the
> MAP file, as with
>
> 	\usepackage{fourier}

That will use .pfb fonts, won't it? Yes, those should work fine.

> When I deactivate GillSans.dfont's TrueType fonts (and leave the
> PostScript fonts activated) then xdvipdfmx still fails.

Because those are LWFN fonts, which are a legacy Mac-only packaging  
format (with PostScript code in resources); xdvipdfmx doesn't yet  
know how to handle them. A patch would be welcome.

JK



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