Issue 1929 - Font selection aborts OO
Summary: Font selection aborts OO
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 638
Hardware: Mac Linux, all
: P2 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: stefan.baltzer
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2001-10-17 16:30 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2008-05-13 15:32 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Unknown 2001-10-17 16:30:47 UTC 
System:
Debian PPC w/ MS TrueType Fonts installed
XFree 4.1.0 w/KDE 2.2

Steps to reproduce:
- Load up Writer.
- Type in something (still crashes without any text though).
- Select font dropdown menu from toolbar.
- Writer starts to save document.
- Writer aborts.

Alternative path:
- After you have typed in something, use the contextual menu to change fonts
after highlighting text. On my system, I can change it to Palatino or Arial
without problem. However, if I select Courier, OO aborts

- Highlight text and use menubar path of Format -> Character. If you use
Palatino, you're ok. If you use Courier and click ok, OO aborts.

OO is having trouble displaying certain fonts (in my case, Courier). When it
tries to render them, it aborts which is why the dropdown menu with its rendered
fonts crashes OO but changing it through the other options can work.
Comment 1 khendricks 2001-10-18 17:44:28 UTC 
Hi,

This is a bug in XFreee86 4.1.0 in libXrender in Xrender.c  The fix 
has been commited to the XFree86 tree so future releases will 
have it automatically.

I have sent patches to SuSE and YDL so newer versions of XF 
4.1.0 will not have this problem.  If you want the patch, please e-
mail me at:

kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca

This bug impacts all platforms (an uninitialized variable is used 
in an "if" statement so we are testing random garbage) but 
seems to hit ppc linux hard.

Just let me know if you want the patch.

Also please CC me in the future will all ppc linux bug reports.

Thanks,

Kevin
Comment 2 stefan.baltzer 2001-10-22 14:30:21 UTC 
You may have missed the Mail to the "announce alias" of Oct 3rd:
 Subject: 	[announce] OpenOffice.org Build 638C released for PPC Linux	

In there, you find this 
<quote>
PLEASE NOTE:  If you have the URW fonts installed, please upgrade them
to
the very latest versions from your distribution type (copies of the
RedHat
RawHide urw-fonts src and noarch rpms are available on the download
sites)
since older URW fonts have some minor corruption that can make
OpenOffice
anti-aliased text segfault (and yes we are working on making freetype
much
more robust to corrupt Type 1 font data).
<unquote>

Please verify and comment. Thank you.
Comment 3 stefan.baltzer 2001-10-29 11:55:15 UTC 
No comment -> no further investigation.
Comment 4 khendricks 2002-06-04 14:27:58 UTC 
closing this out
Comment 5 bluloo 2008-05-13 15:32:11 UTC 
I'd like to throw my vote behind this again. Having the option for a split
window view, especially on a laptop, is most useful for academics, technical
writers and authors. 

You may want to move a block of text in a long document. Having a split window
allows the user to copy/paste and compare both the original block and the new
block prior to committing changes. Otherwise, one has to scroll through a
potentially long document between sections to perform the same action. 

It is literally the one feature that has kept (the expensive) MSO on my Macs and
PCs. 

This would be a very useful and welcome addition to Writer, at least.