On Mar 14, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Stephen Moye wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2011, at 5:09 PM, David Perry wrote:
>
>> I'm having a similar problem. In a font I'm developing, some characters
>> won't print in XeLaTeX, even though they are fine in Word and Notepad
>> (Windows, obviously, not Mac). They display correctly if I set the font in
>> my editor (TeXworks) to be the font I'm working on, but they don't show in
>> the TeX-generated PDF on screen or in print. Word puts them into a PDF
>> without trouble. I doublechecked the Unicode values in my font editor and
>> saw nothing amiss. It so happens that some of these characters in the PUA
>> and others in Plane 1; I'm not sure whether that has anything to do with the
>> problem.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On 3/13/2011 3:52 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:
>>> Three things. First, here is a minimal file that fails to print correctly
>>>
>>> %%===8><---%%
>>>
>>> % !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>>> % !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX
>>>
>>> \documentclass{article}
>>>
>>> \usepackage{xltxtra}
>>> \setmainfont{PFChampionScriptPro-Regular}
>>>
>>> \begin{document}
>>>
>>> % This prints:
>>> This is some text
>>>
>>> % This does not print, though it previews:
>>> \char"EF6C\par %% Also tried using XeTeXglyph
>>> \end{document}
>>>
>>> %%===8><---%%
>>>
>>> Second, I tried the old XeLaTeX-xdv2pdf engine with the same results.
>>>
>>> Third, I tried the brute force approach:
>>>
>>> \font\test="PFChampionScriptPro-Regular" at 18pt \test
>>>
>>> Likewise to no avail.
>>>
>>>
>>> Stephen Moye
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 13, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to use a font with some ornaments in it -- they are rather
>>>> large and complex. I'm using TeXLive2010, and XeLaTeX that shipped with
>>>> it. I am also on a Mac, running Mac OS X 10.6.6.
>>>>
>>>> The ornaments preview perfectly, but will not print. I have cleaned out
>>>> the font caches. I have reinstalled the font. I am able to print the
>>>> characters from other applications.
>>>>
>>>> This is a real puzzle, and new to me. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>
>
> Now I'm really confused -- and not a little concerned. At home (where I first
> experienced the problem) I have an inkjet printer (Brother). I brought my
> conundrum to work where we have PostScript printers, on which the files print
> perfectly with all of the ornament characters showing up. Heartening, in a
> way, but I don't know where to begin to diagnose this issue at home. Again,
> any insights would be welcome...
>
> Stephen
Howdy,
That sure makes it sound like a Printer Driver problem.
At one time there were some extended math characters (dotted overbraces, etc.)
that didn't print on my Brother Laser Printer with the normal driver but when I
switched to a PostScript Clone driver for the same pringer everything started
to print perfectly.
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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