Re: Why does Pandoc fail to create a PDF for certain fonts, but works for other fonts with otherwise the same command?

[Craig Parker <craigp-UzRat0APdLvLPIzirxu/xA@public.gmane.org>]

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The list has already seen this, so I'm just sending it to you...

Give HTML to PDF another whirl. It's fine with WeasyPrint. I've got a 
walkthrough (and a template you can grab on github) here: 
https://linuxacademy.com/blog/tutorials/convert-markdown-to-pdf-tutorial/


On 2/11/20 9:44 AM, tutiluren via pandoc-discuss wrote:
>
>     The info I'm finding on the net is that this indicates the font
>     you're using is a Postscript Type 1 font, which XeTeX doesn't
>     fully support. It should work if you use is a TTF or an OTF font.
>     (The file name should have a `.ttf` or `.otf` file extension. Type
>     1 fonts will have `.pfb`, `.pfm` or `.afm`, according to Wikipedia.)
>
> Thanks for clarifying. However, the file name for Courier/Courier 
> Standard on my Windows 10 is actually "coure.fon" (it was tricky to 
> find out, because that particular dir behaves very differently from 
> all others), but the same principle holds: only "modern" font formats 
> seem to work.
>
> There sure are a lot of death traps on the way to converting a PDF 
> document! And this is for a fixed-letter-size, fixed-column-width, 
> plaintext document... After the nightmare I went through a few years 
> ago, I won't ever even *try* to convert a fancy HTML + CSS document to 
> PDF ever again!
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