* Why does Pandoc fail to create a PDF for certain fonts, but works for other fonts with otherwise the same command?
@ 2020-02-11 14:05 tutiluren via pandoc-discuss
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From: tutiluren via pandoc-discuss @ 2020-02-11 14:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
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This command WORKS (creates a PDF with the "Arial" font):
pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex -V pagestyle="empty" -V mainfont="Arial" -V monofont="Arial" -V fontsize=10pt --verbose -V papersize="A4" -V margin-top="2cm" -V margin-right="2cm" -V margin-bottom="2cm" -V margin-left="2cm" "test.md" -o "out.pdf"
This command also WORKS (creates a PDF with the "Courier New" font):
pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex -V pagestyle="empty" -V mainfont="Courier New" -V monofont="Courier New" -V fontsize=10pt --verbose -V papersize="A4" -V margin-top="2cm" -V margin-right="2cm" -V margin-bottom="2cm" -V margin-left="2cm" "test.md" -o "out.pdf"
However, both these commands FAIL (no PDF created at all):
pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex -V pagestyle="empty" -V mainfont="Courier" -V monofont="Courier" -V fontsize=10pt --verbose -V papersize="A4" -V margin-top="2cm" -V margin-right="2cm" -V margin-bottom="2cm" -V margin-left="2cm" "test.md" -o "out.pdf"
pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex -V pagestyle="empty" -V mainfont="Courier Standard" -V monofont="Courier Standard" -V fontsize=10pt --verbose -V papersize="A4" -V margin-top="2cm" -V margin-right="2cm" -V margin-bottom="2cm" -V margin-left="2cm" "test.md" -o "out.pdf"
From the massive dump of output (containing lots of private paths and stuff), I was able to extract out these clues:
xdvipdfmx:fatal: This font using the "seac" command for accented characters...
No output PDF file written.
What does it mean? What exactly is wrong? In Windows' font dir, there is a "Courier Standard", which, when opened, is simply called "Courier". Both of those strings result in the nonsensical error.
Pandoc version: 2.9.1.1
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* Re: Why does Pandoc fail to create a PDF for certain fonts, but works for other fonts with otherwise the same command?
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@ 2020-02-11 14:21 ` Joost Kremers
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From: Joost Kremers @ 2020-02-11 14:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Tue, Feb 11 2020, tutiluren via pandoc-discuss wrote:
> This command WORKS (creates a PDF with the "Arial" font):
>
> pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex -V pagestyle="empty" -V
> mainfont="Arial" -V monofont="Arial" -V fontsize=10pt
> --verbose -V papersize="A4" -V margin-top="2cm" -V
> margin-right="2cm" -V margin-bottom="2cm" -V
> margin-left="2cm" "test.md" -o "out.pdf"
>
> This command also WORKS (creates a PDF with the "Courier New"
> font):
>
> pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex -V pagestyle="empty" -V
> mainfont="Courier New" -V monofont="Courier New" -V
> fontsize=10pt --verbose -V papersize="A4" -V
> margin-top="2cm" -V margin-right="2cm" -V
> margin-bottom="2cm" -V margin-left="2cm" "test.md" -o
> "out.pdf"
>
> However, both these commands FAIL (no PDF created at all):
>
> pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex -V pagestyle="empty" -V
> mainfont="Courier" -V monofont="Courier" -V fontsize=10pt
> --verbose -V papersize="A4" -V margin-top="2cm" -V
> margin-right="2cm" -V margin-bottom="2cm" -V
> margin-left="2cm" "test.md" -o "out.pdf"
>
> pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex -V pagestyle="empty" -V
> mainfont="Courier Standard" -V monofont="Courier Standard"
> -V fontsize=10pt --verbose -V papersize="A4" -V
> margin-top="2cm" -V margin-right="2cm" -V
> margin-bottom="2cm" -V margin-left="2cm" "test.md" -o
> "out.pdf"
>
> From the massive dump of output (containing lots of private
> paths and stuff), I was able to extract out these clues:
>
> xdvipdfmx:fatal: This font using the "seac" command for
> accented characters...
> No output PDF file written.
>
> What does it mean? What exactly is wrong? In Windows' font dir,
> there is a "Courier Standard", which, when opened, is simply
> called "Courier". Both of those strings result in the
> nonsensical error.
DuckDuckGo is your friend. :-) 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.)
Note that the name under which a font is known to the system (and
under which XeLaTeX would search for it) is not necessarily
identical to the file name of the font on disk. The Windows
control panel should have an option to view the fonts installed on
your system. (Just quoting what I read online here. I can't check
myself because I don't have access to Windows.)
HTH
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* Re: Why does Pandoc fail to create a PDF for certain fonts, but works for other fonts with otherwise the same command?
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@ 2020-02-11 14:24 ` Craig Parker
2020-02-11 14:44 ` tutiluren via pandoc-discuss
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From: Craig Parker @ 2020-02-11 14:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I had trouble with the Microsoft fonts. I'd specified Arial and Courier
New, and I can't remember exactly what the problem was (some characters
not printing or some such), but was allowed to go back to NotoSans and
SourceCodePro, so I didn't give it another thought.
On 2/11/20 9:21 AM, Joost Kremers wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 11 2020, tutiluren via pandoc-discuss wrote:
>> This command WORKS (creates a PDF with the "Arial" font):
>>
>> pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex -V pagestyle="empty" -V
>> mainfont="Arial" -V monofont="Arial" -V fontsize=10pt --verbose -V
>> papersize="A4" -V margin-top="2cm" -V margin-right="2cm" -V
>> margin-bottom="2cm" -V margin-left="2cm" "test.md" -o "out.pdf"
>>
>> This command also WORKS (creates a PDF with the "Courier New" font):
>>
>> pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex -V pagestyle="empty" -V
>> mainfont="Courier New" -V monofont="Courier New" -V fontsize=10pt
>> --verbose -V papersize="A4" -V margin-top="2cm" -V margin-right="2cm"
>> -V margin-bottom="2cm" -V margin-left="2cm" "test.md" -o "out.pdf"
>>
>> However, both these commands FAIL (no PDF created at all):
>>
>> pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex -V pagestyle="empty" -V
>> mainfont="Courier" -V monofont="Courier" -V fontsize=10pt --verbose
>> -V papersize="A4" -V margin-top="2cm" -V margin-right="2cm" -V
>> margin-bottom="2cm" -V margin-left="2cm" "test.md" -o "out.pdf"
>>
>> pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex -V pagestyle="empty" -V
>> mainfont="Courier Standard" -V monofont="Courier Standard" -V
>> fontsize=10pt --verbose -V papersize="A4" -V margin-top="2cm" -V
>> margin-right="2cm" -V margin-bottom="2cm" -V margin-left="2cm"
>> "test.md" -o "out.pdf"
>>
>> From the massive dump of output (containing lots of private paths and
>> stuff), I was able to extract out these clues:
>>
>> xdvipdfmx:fatal: This font using the "seac" command for accented
>> characters...
>> No output PDF file written.
>>
>> What does it mean? What exactly is wrong? In Windows' font dir, there
>> is a "Courier Standard", which, when opened, is simply called
>> "Courier". Both of those strings result in the nonsensical error.
>
> DuckDuckGo is your friend. :-) 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.)
>
> Note that the name under which a font is known to the system (and
> under which XeLaTeX would search for it) is not necessarily identical
> to the file name of the font on disk. The Windows control panel should
> have an option to view the fonts installed on your system. (Just
> quoting what I read online here. I can't check myself because I don't
> have access to Windows.)
>
> HTH
>
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* Re: Why does Pandoc fail to create a PDF for certain fonts, but works for other fonts with otherwise the same command?
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From: tutiluren via pandoc-discuss @ 2020-02-11 14:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
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> 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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* Re: Why does Pandoc fail to create a PDF for certain fonts, but works for other fonts with otherwise the same command?
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@ 2020-02-11 14:46 ` Craig Parker
2020-02-11 17:46 ` John MacFarlane
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From: Craig Parker @ 2020-02-11 14:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tutiluren via pandoc-discuss
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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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From: John MacFarlane @ 2020-02-11 17:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
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writes:
> 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!
Why don't you use wkhtmltopdf, which is designed precisely to
render HTML + CSS to PDF?
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