Re: Font bugs on Windows (TeXLive 2008)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Vasile Gaburici wrote:
> Problems:
> - Bold is not listed for *any* font from OSFONTDIR = C:/windows/fonts
> - Typesetting with any specified font fails

your subject says 'texlive', best use the latest minimals (teh texl iv 
eversion has been frozen some time ago and may not be perfect in the 
system font department); btw, there will be zips with minimals (cf 
garden) on the tex collection dvd

> C:\tlhome\Vasile>mtxrun --script fonts --list | qgrep Calibri
> calibri                                     Calibri
>         Calibri.otf
> calibri bold italic                         Calibri Bold Italic
>         Calibri Bold Italic.otf
> calibri italic                              Calibri Italic
>         Calibri Italic.otf
> 
> C:\tlhome\Vasile>more hellolua.tex
> \font\x=calibri at 64pt
> \x Hello \TeX!
> \bye
> 
> C:\tlhome\Vasile>luatex hellolua.tex
> This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.4-2008071819 (Web2C 7.5.7)
> (hellolua.tex
> ! Font \x=calibri at 64pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad.
> <to be read again>
>                    \x
> l.2 \x
>        Hello \TeX!
> ?X
> 
> C:\tlhome\Vasile>more hellolua.tex
> \font\x=cyklop-regular at 64pt
> \x Hello \TeX!
> \bye
> 
> C:\tlhome\Vasile>mtxrun --script fonts --list | qgrep Cyklop
> cyklop-italic                               Cyklop-Italic
>         cyklop-italic.otf
> cyklop-regular                              Cyklop-Regular
>         cyklop-regular.otf
> 
> C:\tlhome\Vasile>luatex hellolua.tex
> This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.4-2008071819 (Web2C 7.5.7)
> (hellolua.tex
> ! Font \x=cyklop-regular at 64pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad.
> <to be read again>
>                    \x
> l.2 \x
>        Hello \TeX!
> ?X
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