[tex-live] XeTeX Complete Success

[Jiang Jiang]

Hi Werner,

Do you aware of any problem with FreeType's TTC support in regards to
Hannotate.ttc and HanziPen.ttc added in OS X 10.9?

XeTeX has the following code:

error = FT_New_Face(gFreeTypeLibrary, (char *) pathname, 0, &face);
if (!error) {
    if (face->num_faces > 1) {
        int num_faces = face->num_faces;
        char *ps_name1 = getNameFromCTFont(ctFontRef, kCTFontPostScriptNameKey);
        int i;
        *index = -1;
        FT_Done_Face (face);
        for (i = 0; i < num_faces; i++) {
            error = FT_New_Face (gFreeTypeLibrary, (char *) pathname, i, &face);
            if (!error) {
                const char *ps_name2 = FT_Get_Postscript_Name(face);
                if (strcmp(ps_name1, ps_name2) == 0) {
                    *index = i;
                    break;
                }
                FT_Done_Face (face);
            }
        }
        free(ps_name1);
    }
}

to read a font from ttc and find out the index, for HanziPen.ttc for
instance there should be 4 faces, which face->num_faces reported
correctly. However, FT_Get_Postscript_Name() returned: HanziPenSC-W3,
HanziPenSC-W3, HanziPenSC-W5, HanziPenSC-W5 for these 4 faces, while
the correct ones should be: HanziPenSC-W3, HanziPenTC-W3,
HanziPenSC-W5, HanziPenTC-W5.

- Jiang

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Jiang Jiang <gzjjgod at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Richard Koch
> <richardmoncriefkoch at icloud.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Amazingly, the full story for XeTeX and Mac fonts is as follows:
>>
>>         a) The following fonts were fixed and now work
>>
>>         HeadlineA
>>         Hannotate SC
>>         HanziPen SC
>>         ITF Devanagari
>>         Kohinoor Devanagari
>>         Osaka
>>         PCMyungio
>>         PilGi
>>         Skia
>>         Yuppy SC
>>         Yuppy TC
>>         Apple Chancery
>>
>>         b) The following fonts are broken, but Khaled reports
>>         that they are all bitmapped fonts; each produces the same
>>         error in the log, which does not involve xdvipdfm-x.
>>
>>         GB18030 Bitmap
>>         Hannotate TC
>>         HanziPen TC
>>         Apple Color Emoji
>>
>> Note that Hannotate TC and HanziPen TC are broken, but
>> Hannotate SC and HanziPen SC work.
>
> Hannotate and HanziPen aren't bitmap fonts, they are OpenType
> PostScript fonts wrapped in TrueType Collection format. I can confirm
> that we can't use these yet, but the problem is most likely not in
> xdvipdfmx but in XeTeX's font lookup code. I will look into this.
>
> - Jiang