[pdftex] Bug? of pdftex beta upon reading some truetype?

[Thanh Han The]

I uploaded a patch to sarovar. See
http://sarovar.org/tracker/?group_id=106 -> bugs -> #611

Thanh


On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 05:33:24PM +0200, The Thanh Han wrote:
> looks like a bug in subfont module of pdftex. I will take a
> look next week.
>
> Regards,
> Thanh
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:56:03PM +0900, Dohyun Kim wrote:
> > I have recently installed pdftex beta on my Linux box. But I am
> > puzzled by a strange behavior of newly installed pdftex. For your
> > test, I've put a minimal tarball (1.6M) to a server:
> >
> > http://210.94.201.157/~nomos/KTUG/truetypetest.tar.gz
> >
> > On my i686 Linux machine, compiling the following file (which is
> > included in the tarball above) with pdftex beta version 20060906 fails
> > with Segmentation Fault.
> >
> > ====================
> > %\pdfmapline{+ounbtb4e <ounbtb4e.enc <UnDotumBold.ttf} %%% it works.
> > \pdfmapline{+ounbtb at Unicode@ <UnDotumBold.ttf}         %%% it segfaults.
> > \font\mytt=ounbtb4e\relax
> > \mytt
> > \char0
> > \char1
> > \bye
> > ====================
> >
> > Messages upon compiling:
> >
> > $ pdftex tttest.tex
> > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.0-beta-20060906 (Web2C 7.5.5)
> > entering extended mode
> > (./tttest.tex{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}{Unicode.sfd}
> > [1] )</usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb><UnDotumBold.tt
> > f세그멘테이션 오류
> >
> > When I use the first-line, which is currently commented out, instead
> > of the second, compiling succeeds.
> >
> > What really puzzles me is that the same file as above has been
> > complied flawlessly on my PowerPC iBook laptop. So I am not sure
> > whther it is a bug of pdftex beta or my personal mistake. I hope the
> > latter be the case.
> >
> > Can anybody reproduce the same problem on your Linux box?
> >
> > Dohyun Kim
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