I use FontForge extensively I never encountered this, and generally it
is less crashy than it used to be. May be it is 64bit specific bug?
Regards,
Khaled
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 05:20:57PM +0800, john knightley wrote:
Dear Khaled
the segmentation fault is somewhat erratic for example moving around the
letter
g does not crash but moving say a character at uf8000 does - in some cases
starting a new font, making it full unicode going to a higher point and
simply
pressing element is sufficient to crash. Even if somewhat difficult to
describe
there is indeed a serious problem here. I have one machine running ubuntu 9.10
which I have been doing all my fontforge work on because when I update to
ubuntu 10.4 I noticed this bug, which has remained though I have updated to
10.10 .
Over the past week I have been preparing to do a fontforge training session in
Feb and I myself thought that install rather than updating to Maverick solved
the problem because I only tested 'g' .
Regards
John
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote:
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:35:26AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
Hi fontforge folks--
over on Debian, we've just gotten http://bugs.debian.org/656359, which
appears to contain a reproducible segfault.
Some folks have suggested that it may be due to more recent versions of
dependent libraries, but i haven't been able to track it down in more
detail, i'm afraid.
From Theppitak's original report, a recipe to produce the crash:
Steps to reproduce:
- Start fontforge and create a new font.
- Randomly choose a first glyph to edit.
- Draw splines with at least 5 points.
- Select up to 4 points and press a modifier or arrow key. It won't
crash.
- Select at least 5 points and press a modifier or arrow key. It will
always crash.
Any suggestions?
I can't reproduce this with fontforge built from git master running
under Ubuntu 10.04.
Regards,
Khaled
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