[Scribus] Scribus crashes with some ghostscript .pfa fonts

[Javier Marcet]

Hi there,
today I've chased down a absolutely odd crash (Segmentation fault while
loading) on Scribus 1.1.5

I'm using Qt 3.3.1, KDE 3.2 and kernel 2.6.4-rc2

The first thing I tried was recompiling wihout any kind of optimization
(I use Gentoo), but that didn't help at all.

Thus I ended up stracing it (which I should have done in the first
place), and I saw it crashed while opening some fonts I had on
/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript

The next thing I did was moving that folder out and, at last, Scribus
loaded correctly. Then, I began to move back all the fonts until I found
the ones which made Scribus crash. I don't know if any of them has any
problem, but you can grab them compressed from:
http://www.marcet.info/files/ghostscript-crashing.tar.bz2

Each of these fonts (.pfa all of them) come with a few .gsf files under
the same name. I guess they might be needed for you to check them but I
have not included them in the attached archive at the moment. If you
want a copy, tell me so :)

The fonts come from the ghostscript distribution.
You can find the original archive on:
ftp://ftp.easysw.com/pub/ghostscript/gnu-gs-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz

P.S If they don't make Scribus crash for you, do you have any idea about
what might be the reason for it to crash here?


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-- 
Javier Marcet <javier at marcet.info>