[tex-live] Problems with Nafees fonts

[Jonathan Kew]

On 31 Aug 2011, at 12:51, Zdenek Wagner wrote:

> 2011/8/31 Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>:
>>> Well obviously xdvipdfmx can't find the font. I get the same error
>>> message if I first generate the xdv, then remove the font, and then
>>> call xdvipdfmx.
>> 
>> Here (windows) xdvipdfmx can find the font by
>> \setmainfont[Script=Arabic]{Nafees Nastaleeq}:
>> 
> Thank you for the test, I removed bidi but I still get the same error.
> Thus is seems to be an OS specific problem, maybe in XeTeX, maybe in
> fontspec, maybe in xdvipdfmx (I cannot find a contact to an author of
> xdvipdfmx). I have placed all relevant mails, the source file and the
> log file at
> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/NafeesBug/
> 
> I can try it on i386 in Fedora 13 and if needed, I can build TL
> binaries from svn repository, if you modify the sources and if it
> helps testing.

My guess is that this is related to fontconfig behavior, and some kind of oddity or mismatch in the font's name table.

What version of fontconfig is present on your machine? If it's not fairly up-to-date, it might be worth trying a more recent one.

(BTW, the xetex list would probably be a better place for this thread than the tex-live one.)

JK