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

Thanh Han The hanthethanh at gmail.com
Fri Sep 29 17:33:34 CEST 2006


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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