JT> I have a large number of TrueType fonts installed on my system (just over
JT> 1000).
JT> Under KWord the font selection drop down box gives a preview of every font.
JT> Whenver I scroll quickly up and down the list, xfs crashes!
Most likely, it's neither an xfs problem nor a problem with the number
of fonts, but some font that crashes the TrueType backend. A pity, I
thought we had squashed all of those in 4.1.0.
(The font is probably incorrect -- you're not likely to have 1000
high-quality fonts --, but a broken font crashing the server is still
a FreeType or XFree86 bug.)
Could you try working out which font, exactly, crashes the font
server? Then we can try debugging the problem.
The simplest way to do so would be to install your first 500 fonts
only, and see if it happens. Then take the 500 fonts in which you
have located the broken one, and try again with the first 250 fonts of
the batch. Continue narrowing the range further, you should converge
in 10 iterations, 9 if you're lucky.
Alternatively, you could do
for i in "$(xlsfonts)"; do xfd -fn "$i"; done
and click on ``Quit'' until the font server crashes. Expect 500
clicks, on average.
(Yes, it's a pain, but there's nothing I can do to help you until
you've identified the broken font.)
Oh, by the way: you don't mention your platform, so I assume it is
RedHat Linux, right? Mike, did you apply any local patches to the
TrueType backend in the versions he mentions?
Juliusz
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