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Expert Type 1 fonts crash X Windows?

Post by Robert S. Mai » Sat, 05 Jul 1997 04:00:00



My X server (XFree86 3.1.2, under Linux) unfortunately crashes when
I attempt to display any expert Type 1 font.  Apparently rasterizing any font
that uses the expert encoding triggers a bug in the server.  I have no
difficulty installing and using any other sort of Type 1 font.

This is not good!  Has anyone else seen this, or know of a workaround?
Is the problem restricted to XFree86?

In case you're wondering, I've installed the expert fonts correctly.  The
following are two sample entries from my fonts.scale file:

    AGaramondExp-Regular.pfb -adobe-garamond expert-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
    BodoniBE-RegularExp.pfb -berthold-bodoni expert-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific

Doing an `xlsfont' on Adobe Garamond Expert or Berthold Bodoni Expert is
guaranteed to trigger a crash.  It's the same with several other expert
fonts I've tried.

Comments or advice, anyone?

--Robert

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