[Dvipng] Possible problem with dvipng version 1.8/FT fonts

[William S. Harwin]

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There may be a problem with loading FT fonts in version 1.8 of dvipng. I 
get the following error when running version 1.8
   dvipng: Fatal error, cannot load FT char 78
(char 78 is evidently the first character in my dvi file 'N')
This is caused by the call to FT_Load_Glyp in ft.c
Version 1.7 compiles and runs successfully on my system.


For info the debug call is given below
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dvipng -d foo
This is dvipng 1.8 Copyright 2002-2006 Jan-Ake Larsson
OPEN FILE       foo.dvi
@0 DVI START:   PRE 2 25400000/473628672 1000 (11841) ' TeX output 
2006.05.12:1205'
 OPEN FILE:    '/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ps2pk.map'
@42 PAGE START: BOP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (1)[1
@87 DRAW CMD:   Y4 37890293
@92 DRAW CMD:   PUSH
@93 DRAW CMD:   DOWN4 -37890293
@98 DRAW CMD:   Y0
@99 DRAW CMD:   PUSH
@100 DRAW CMD:  DOWN4 -37234933
@105 DRAW CMD:  PUSH
@106 DRAW CMD:  RIGHT3 1310720
@110 DRAW CMD:  FNT_DEF1 7 1274110073 655360 655360 0 5 'cmr10'
 FONT 7:       New entry created
@131 DRAW CMD:  FONT_07
 FIND FONT:    cmr10 400
 OPEN FILE:    '/usr/share/texmf/dvips/tetex/f7b6d320.enc'
 OPEN METRICS: '/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/cm/cmr10.tfm'
 OPEN FILE:    '/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/cm/cmr10.tfm'
 OPEN FT FONT: '/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb'
@132 DRAW CMD:  SETC_078
 FT CHAR:      'N' 78 at (28,14) tfmw 491521
dvipng: Fatal error, cannot load FT char 78



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