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

[Dale]

Dale wrote:
> 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
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>

I got it installed and it did not crash.  I could scroll all the way to
the bottom of it.  This seems to have fixed it.

I guess I was right, it was a font problem.  That was what Google came
up with and they were old as the hills.

Thanks for getting it fixed for me and the rest of us.

Dale

:-)  :-)