Having the line <dir>/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1</dir> in /etc/fonts.avail/09-texlive.conf makes type1-fonts available via fontconfig. Yet this doesn't work well with XeTeX. E.g., having \setmainfont{Droid Serif} and typing accented characters (like German umlauts üöä) won't compile via xelatex with the following error in the log-file: xdvipdfmx:fatal: This font using the "seac" command for accented characters... Output file removed. ) Error 256 (driver return code) generating output; file XXX.pdf may not be valid. This works when I use a truetype or opentype version of the font after I remove (or comment out) the cited line from above and regenerate the font cache. This is a known problem (https://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/bugs/131/). Texlive developer Akira Kakuto recommends to hide type1 fonts from fontconfig. Please consider to change the mentioned configuration file accordingly.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ffb518b16595646319f74afec499530b6cf13506 commit ffb518b16595646319f74afec499530b6cf13506 Author: Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-08-05 08:25:23 +0000 Commit: Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-08-05 08:26:02 +0000 dev-texlive/texlive-xetex: Drop type1 font from fontconfig Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/652680 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.69, Repoman-2.3.16 Signed-off-by: Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@gentoo.org> dev-texlive/texlive-xetex/files/09-texlive.conf | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
