Jonathan Kew wrote:
> I'm not sure offhand, but I wonder whether the issue is that your fonts
> are in ASCII PostScript (.pfa) format, and perhaps the driver xetex is
> using only supports binary PostScript (.pfb) files.
That's what it is.
(x)dvipdfmx does not support .pfa format type1 fonts:
t
2012/3/31 Orm Finnendahl :
> Dear Khaled,
>
> Am Samstag, den 31. März 2012 um 18:51:20 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Khaled Hosny:
>>
>> I highly suspect this is a xdvipdfmx issue, since the engine wouldn't
>> need to real font at all. IIRC, old versions of (x)dvipdfmx had its own
>> map file, so it might b
Dear Khaled,
Am Samstag, den 31. März 2012 um 18:51:20 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Khaled Hosny:
>
> I highly suspect this is a xdvipdfmx issue, since the engine wouldn't
> need to real font at all. IIRC, old versions of (x)dvipdfmx had its own
> map file, so it might be that updmap(-sys) failed to update
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 06:36:35PM +0200, Orm Finnendahl wrote:
> xetex:
>
> > orm@varese:~/work/texte/sonstiges$ xetex test02.tex
> > This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
> > entering extended mode
> > (./test02.tex [1]
> > kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bd
On 3/31/12 9:19 AM, Orm Finnendahl wrote:
Hi,
thanks for the help. I wasn't aware of xetex's capabilities to use
systemwide installed fonts. Including them like this works ootb (I
already had these fonts installed):
\font\rm="ScalaSans-Regular" at 14 pt \rm Hello World!
There is one drawback
2012/3/31 Peter Dyballa :
>
> Am 31.3.2012 um 18:12 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
>
>> Also non of this will help OP since it is a TFM font that he is trying
>> to use.
>
> >From the snippet given, one, at least I, cannot easily tell whether the name
> >"fssb8a.pfa" was found in a MAP file or given in the
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 06:19:50PM +0200, Orm Finnendahl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for the help. I wasn't aware of xetex's capabilities to use
> systemwide installed fonts. Including them like this works ootb (I
> already had these fonts installed):
>
> \font\rm="ScalaSans-Regular" at 14 pt \rm He
Hi Khaled,
Am Samstag, den 31. März 2012 um 18:11:03 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Khaled Hosny:
> can you attach a minimal document that fails for you, are
> the font definition exactly the same when you try under different
> engines?
Document is attached. Below is the output of the different commands
(te
Am 31.3.2012 um 18:12 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
> Also non of this will help OP since it is a TFM font that he is trying
> to use.
>From the snippet given, one, at least I, cannot easily tell whether the name
>"fssb8a.pfa" was found in a MAP file or given in the TeX source file. But I
>think you'r
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 06:22:45PM +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
> Am 31.3.2012 um 18:05 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
>
> > XeTeX can (and does) use kpathsea (kpsewhich is just a command line tool
> > using kpathsea).
>
> Yes, for the few Computer Modern fonts it has to support (to pass trip
> test).
Am 31.3.2012 um 18:05 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
> XeTeX can (and does) use kpathsea (kpsewhich is just a command line tool
> using kpathsea).
Yes, for the few Computer Modern fonts it has to support (to pass trip test).
But does it also support, say, the Concrete, Duerer, Pandora, Malvern fonts? In
Hi,
thanks for the help. I wasn't aware of xetex's capabilities to use
systemwide installed fonts. Including them like this works ootb (I
already had these fonts installed):
\font\rm="ScalaSans-Regular" at 14 pt \rm Hello World!
There is one drawback though: I have generated all kinds of virtua
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 06:05:33PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 04:50:25PM +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> >
> > Am 31.3.2012 um 13:45 schrieb Orm Finnendahl:
> >
> > >> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi \
> > >> 600 fssb8a.pfa
> >
> > Put
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 01:45:50PM +0200, Orm Finnendahl wrote:
> I'm on Ubuntu 10.04 Linux and this is the xetex version information:
>
> orm@varese:~$ xetex --version
> XeTeX 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
> kpathsea version 5.0.0
> Copyright 2009 SIL International and Jonathan Ke
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 04:50:25PM +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
> Am 31.3.2012 um 13:45 schrieb Orm Finnendahl:
>
> >> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi \
> >> 600 fssb8a.pfa
>
> Put the font directories of TeX into your system's fonts service,
> i.e., libfontc
Am 31.3.2012 um 13:45 schrieb Orm Finnendahl:
>> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi \
>> 600 fssb8a.pfa
Put the font directories of TeX into your system's fonts service, i.e.,
libfontconfig. This is controlled by files like fonts.conf or ~ /.fonts.conf.
Then ru
Hi,
trying to render a plain tex document with custom installed fonts
using the xetex binary gives the following error:
> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi \
> 600 fssb8a.pfa
>
> mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for fssb8a.pfa.
> kpathsea: Appending
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