Re: [gentoo-user] Kpdf crashes with large documents.

[Dale]

Peter Alfredsen wrote:
> [Please CC me on all replies]
>
> On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Dale wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently "stole" me a Motorola Razr phone and it didn't come with
>> the manual.  I downloaded it off the Motorola website and was
>> reading, or attempting to read, it when Kpdf crashed.  It does this
>> when I scroll down to about page 30 or so.  It's a pretty large
>> document since it has both English and Spanish.
>>
>
> For me, this pdf crashed evince in cffparse.c:361, which is indicative
> of a bug in freetype (bug 247104) for which I just committed a fix.
> Please add to your package.keywords and test.
> +*freetype-2.3.7-r1 (01 Jan 2009)
> +
> +  01 Jan 2009; Peter Alfredsen <loki_val@g.o>
> +  +files/freetype-2.3.7-b.g.o-247104.patch,
> +  +files/freetype-2.3.7-b.g.o-253029.patch,
> +  +files/freetype-2.3.7-fix-incorrect-scaling.patch,
> +  +files/freetype-2.3.7-no-segfault-on-load_mac_face.patch,
> +  +freetype-2.3.7-r1.ebuild:
> +  Fix bug 247104, segfault in cffparse.c:361, bug 253029, missing
> letters in
> +  certain fonts, thanks to Andreas Turriff for the patch-pointer. Also
> +  import patches for alien bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/487101,
> segfault
> +  when building certain fonts and
> +  http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?23973 , incorrect scaling
> of
> +  certain fonts.
> +
>
>

Just synced and in the process of installing.

Dale

:-)  :-)