[XeTeX] Checking if a font exists

[Khaled Hosny]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:21:11PM +0200, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> > * The error code is set because of the error message, if the
> >   font cannot be found.
> 
>   Doesn't XeTeX implement \suppressfontnotfounderror that was added to
> pdfTeX two or three years ago, precisely to deal with this kind of
> problem?

I thought it is a luatex-only addition (it is implied in the manual). I
found this pdftex tracker issue which gives some background:
http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=864&group_id=106

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer