Fonts are ignored in PDF

[Skeeve]

I put into my document:

---
mainfont: Avenir Next
---

and. in split mode I can see the font change.

But when exporting to PDF, the font is ignored.

Are there any troubleshooting tips?

I'm using

• Mac OS 13.1
• pandoc 3.1
• panWriter 0.8.5

[mb21]

PDF export is using pandoc, which is using LaTeX under the hood. There, not all normally installed fonts are supported. See https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#fonts

[Skeeve]

Okay. But I have a font which works with pandoc on another machine, but I do not use panwriter there. So what would be the correct syntax to tell pandoc from panwriter where the fontfile resides?

I already tried the full path to the font file but I did not succeed.

[Skeeve]

I checked as described here: https://fedidat.com/160-installing-fonts-for-pandoc/

and I can see: My font is installed.

[Skeeve]

Update:

pandoc -f markdown --pdf-engine=xelatex --to pdf -o Untitled.pdf Untitled.md

This works with my intended font "Avenir Next"

but when I define in the document or defaults.yaml

papersize: A4
mainfont: Avenir Next
output:
  latex:
    toc: true
    pdf-engine: xelatex

panWriter fails

Called: pandoc --metadata-file '/Users/skeeve/Library/Application Support/PanWriterUserData/default.yaml' --toc --pdf-engine xelatex --metadata 'mainfont=-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, sans-serif' --metadata monobackgroundcolor=#f0f0f0 --output /Users/skeeve/Desktop/Untitled.pdf --to latex --standalone

Error producing PDF.
! Package fontspec Error: The font "-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe
(fontspec)                UI, sans-serif" cannot be found.

For immediate help type H <return>.
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l.24 \fi

[Skeeve]

Update: mainfont works if
a) You put it into the document, not in the defaults.yaml
b) You use xelatex as the pdf-engine

[Skeeve]

Would, maybe, this solve the issue?

  if (docMeta.mainfont === undefined) {
    out.metadata.mainfont = extMeta.mainfont || '-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, sans-serif';
  }

Yes, it does. Please see PR #134

[Skeeve]

Will be fixed when PR #134 is merged.