Re: [Devel] Re: [Cooker] KDE crashes, was: 2.4.3-3mdk and VIA

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Please send me the font.  I will look into this, as I am responsible for
tracking down bugs in the Type 1 driver. :)

Tom

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> >
> > > Note that this is not a problem of KDE or XFree86, but an
> > > incompatibility between freetype 2.0.2 and the font file
> > > n021004l.pfa ('Nimbus Roman No9 L Medium' from URW fonts
> > > and also AbiSuite) which used to work. It is the glyph
> > > '�' (\,c) appearantly.
> >
> > Thanks for the fix, but what exactly is the problem?  Using ftview,
> > everything seems to work fine.  Using t1disasm to look closer at the
> > character `/ccedilla' of font n021004l.pfb (version 1.05, dated
> > 22-Dec-1999 -- this comes with ghostscript 5.50), I can't find
> > anything special.
> >
> It may be some other character, but the iterator is (iirc) 231 when
> scanning all characters, so I figured it would be /ccedilla.
> The exact symptoms were that all applications using antialiased fonts with
> freetype 2.0.2 and XFree86 4.0.3 segfault while scanning the available
> fonts.
> The n021004l font seems to be the only occasion where the op_endchar
> from the patch is hit. At the time that happens, builder->current
> is zero, which it probably is not supposed to be.
> I am not sure about the version of the font, but it has 27848 bytes and
> is the one that also comes with AbiSuite 0.7.13.
> My patch probably does not fix the actual bug, but should give you a
> hint about what is really wrong there. I don't really know much about
> fonts, but just used gdb to poke around after the upgrade to freetype 2.0.2
> broke my system.
>
> Arnd <><
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