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Date:      Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:56:17 -0400
From:      James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To:        Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org>, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>, freetype-devel@nongnu.org
Subject:   Re: [ft-devel] Re: xorg crashes with freetype2-2.1.10
Message-ID:  <m38y01ux0u.fsf@lugabout.cloos.reno.nv.us>
In-Reply-To: <42DDEC20.7010502@yahoo.co.uk> (Hin-Tak Leung's message of "Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:16:00 %2B0100")
References:  <1121631880.80601.11.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <op.st4sftf09aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <42DD6D25.3050309@yahoo.co.uk> <42DD6FAC.5040200@FreeBSD.org> <42DDDE44.9010707@yahoo.co.uk> <1121836344.38031.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <42DDE3C1.4060505@yahoo.co.uk> <1121837996.38031.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <42DDE8DD.60307@yahoo.co.uk> <1121838924.38031.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <42DDEC20.7010502@yahoo.co.uk>

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>>>>> "Hin-Tak" == Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

>> You also need the freetype module loaded in X.

Hin-Tak> yes, I Know that - how else can I view web pages with
Hin-Tak> truetype fonts?!

Mozilla uses client-side fonts via libXft.  The crash in question is
in the X server's freetype module which supports server-side fonts.

You'll need to use an app which uses the (older) server-side font
support to trigger the bug.

An easy choice is xfd(1x) with a -fn option. 

Eg:

  xfd -fn -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-m-0-iso10646-1

should trigger the bug if you have the freetype module loaded and
an entry in a fonts.dir file in your fontpath that points that XLFD
to a scalable font.

-JimC
-- 
James H. Cloos, Jr. <cloos@jhcloos.com>





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