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Okay. So there was one ~/Library/texmf/… file in the console output: 1 2005 copy of fontspec.sty. Got rid of that file and now the MWE acts like it’s processing fine, but it outputs a blank pdf and I get the following error message:</div>
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xdvipdfmx:fatal: Cannot proceed without the font: /Users/me/Library/Fonts/Times New Roman</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I double checked and Times New Roman is in
</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">/Users/me/Library/Fonts. But it’s not being found. Font mapping issue? (I seem to remember having to do something with this years ago.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Best, </span></div>
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<b>From: </b>MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex-bounces@email.esm.psu.edu> on behalf of Richard Koch <koch@uoregon.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, December 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>TeX on Mac OS X <macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [OS X TeX] XeLaTeX and fontspec issue<br>
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<div class="PlainText" style="font-size: 11pt;">Jeff,<br>
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I just tried your sample program myself on Sequoia and had no problems.<br>
Here are two suggestions, although readers of this mailing group are usually<br>
much better than I am at finding errors.<br>
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1) When you reinstalled MacTeX, you got TeX Live as it was last March.<br>
You might want to update to the latest stuff using TeX Live Utility.<br>
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2) (Probably a better hint) Often problems occur because users added<br>
files to ~/Library/texmf. This location is searched first, so old files can override<br>
more recent versions in TeX Live and MacTeX. The easy way to<br>
check is to look at the console output and search for entries that<br>
do not start with<br>
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/usr/local/texlive/2025/...<br>
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but instead start with<br>
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~/Library/texmf/.......<br>
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Of course special files from your publisher are fine there, but files<br>
that duplicate files already in TeX Live are very suspicious.<br>
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Dick Koch<br>
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