On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 11:07:56AM -0400, bulia byak wrote:
There has been 3 independent reports of crashes with some fonts on Windows:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1496795... https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1495807&gr... https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1494337&gr...
At least 2 of them are Pango errors, and I suspect the third one is as well. On Linux these fonts seem to work fine.
The problem is that now it crashes as soon as you open the drop-down in the text toolbar, because of auto previews. Previously it only crashed if you clicked specifically on that font in Font dialog list. So now Inkscape _seems_ much more crashy. And judging by the number of the reports, this is going to be a really major problem.
What do we do? Disable previews in drop-down until this is fixed? This is the easiest thing to do, and of course only a partial solution (it will still crash if you select that font).
Or, try to find out what these fonts have in common (something encoding related I guess) and just disable all such fonts.
Or, (most difficult) fix this bug in Pango and ship our own Pango dll (as we do) with this fix.
Thoughts?
For what it's worth, I estimate we're only a few days from being to Hard Freeze, so whatever solution is chosen, it needs to be done expediently. I agree with that this is more critical than we'd expected, due to the number of bug reports. If the feature needs to be disabled in order to avoid increasing Inkscape's crashiness, then that'd probably be a wise thing to do. Of course, eliminating the bug entirely (or even mostly) would be much preferred.
Bryce