We received one bug report about XeTex, the variable fonts is not usable with xelatex. The original bug report and example file is in the following line. URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2271559 From the report, xelatex got the following error with variable fonts: xdvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid TTC index number No output PDF file written. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install google-noto-sans-cjk-vf-fonts, and google-noto-sans-mono-cjk-vf-fonts, as well as texlive packages necessary for xelatex including texlive-xetex and texlive-ctex 2. Run "xelatex test.tex", with test.tex shown below test.tex ------------------------------------------- \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xeCJK} \setCJKmainfont{Noto Sans CJK SC} \setCJKmonofont{Noto Sans Mono CJK SC} \begin{document} 中文 \LaTeX 示例。 {\ttfamily 中文 \LaTeX 示例。 } \end{document} ------------------------------------------- Actual Results: xelatex+xdvipdfmx ends up in an error: ------------------------------------------- xdvipdfmx:fatal: Invalid TTC index number No output PDF file written. ) Error 256 (driver return code) generating output; file test.pdf may not be valid. Transcript written on test.log. ------------------------------------------- Expected Results: The PDF file is written correctly.