[tex-live] [tlpretest] regression of xdvipdfmx regarding dfont processing

Herbert Schulz herbs2 at mac.com
Wed Apr 22 16:36:35 CEST 2015


> On Apr 19, 2015, at 9:13 PM, Dohyun Kim <nomosnomos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mac OS X, a fatal error occurs while processing this simple tex
> file (which had no problem with TL2014):
> 
> %%%
> \font\ha="Helvetica"
> \ha abc
> \bye
> %%%
> 
> $ xetex --no-pdf t.tex
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99992 (TeX Live 2015)
> (preloaded format=xetex)
> restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./t.tex [1] )
> Output written on t.xdv (1 page, 376 bytes).
> Transcript written on t.log.
> $ xdvipdfmx t.xdv
> t.xdv -> t.pdf
> [1
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: sfnt: table not found...
> Output file removed.
> 
> The real font is located at /System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.dfont.
> 
> Regards,
> Dohyun Kim

Howdy,

I wonder if the problem is in xetex. I process

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setsansfont{Helvetica}
\begin{document}
Hello World!
\end{document}

with `xelatex -no-pdf` and get the following error:

\g__file_internal_ior=\read1

! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.
<to be read again> 
                   \l_fontspec_font 
l.5 \setsansfont{Helvetica}

so, possibly something isn't being set correctly in xetex itself. (I've already let Will Robertson, maintainer of fontspec, know about this.)
                           
Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs2 at mac dot com)







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