[Scribus] bad fonts

[Craig Bradney]

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 05:18, bart at solozone.com wrote:
> What is the reason some bad fonts show as e.g.
> ZJI___.pfb bad font discarding it
>
> while otheres simply crash on access with signal 11?
>  I had a font demo running in 1.2 with half a dozen Helvetica examples and
> it printed on a bubble jet quite prettily. Now these hobbes.nmsu.edu OS/2
> fonts crash. Not all do so however. Scribus seems to be tougher on bad
> fonts now.

Scribus use of fonts hasnt changed in 1.2. The only thing in 1.3 that has 
changed is the fontconfig use.

Scribus rejects fonts based on freetype return values, but if freetype doesnt 
detect a bad font, neither can we.

Craig
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