[XeTeX] Fonts and Snow Leopard

[Mark Moll]

On Sep 10, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Sep 10, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
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>> On Sep 10, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Mark Moll wrote:
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>>> I'm observing the same behavior. Attached are a minimal tex file  
>>> and resulting PDF. What makes this even more mysterious is that if  
>>> I copy/paste the text in the pdf to TextEdit.app, I get Helvetica  
>>> Neue text (shown in the screenshot below the Acrobat window).  
>>> Acrobat's document properties say that HelveticaNeue-Light is  
>>> used...
>>>
>>> On Sep 8, 2009, at 5:23 PM, James Townshend wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I'm a relative novice in the field.
>>>> Since updating to 10.6 my starting code for most documents
>>>> 		 %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>>>> 		 % !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX-xdv2pdf
>>>> 		\usepackage{fontspec,xunicode,xltxtra}
>>>> 		\setmainfont{Helvetica Neue Light}
>>>> only produces text in pdf in helvetica. Switching to a serif  
>>>> font, still produces the same result.
>>>> I reinstalled MacTeX2008 but the issue remains.
>>>> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>> James Townshend
>>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> <helvneue.tex><helvneue.pdf><acrobatvstextedit.png>
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> The embedded font in the supplied pdf file is, indeed, Helvetica  
>> Neue Light according to Acrobat Reader. If I use
>>
>> \setmainfont{Helvetica Neue}
>>
>> Adobe Reader reports that it is Helvetica Neue even though thee two  
>> look the same in both Preview and Adobe Reader. The don't appear  
>> the same in Font Book. Don't know where the bug is but it sounds  
>> like a rendering problem.
>>
>> Good Luck,
>>
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>>
>>
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> I now see that Helvetica Neue are ttc fonts in Snow Leopard and  
> xdvipdfmx is known to not have full support for ttc fonts: there was  
> a previous problem noted about Hoefler Text which are also ttc  
> fonts. You should be able to use xdvi2pdf as the back end instead of  
> xdvipdfmx.
>
> In TeXShop you van get engines to do that for you. There should be  
> the XeTeX- and XeLaTeX-xdvi2pdf engines in ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ 
> Inactive/XeTeX/ shihc need only be moved up to ~/Library/TeXShop/ 
> Engines/ (two directories up) to activate them.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)


Excellent, that works!

-- 
Mark