From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 06:53:38 EDT
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Joaquín Cuenca Abela wrote:
> Keeping in the tradition to reply to myself, I've finally been able to
> fix the first problem without doing big changes. Btw I've been pissed
> by 2 classical: macros and fix sized buffers.
>
> I was trying to output with UT_DEBUGMSG a string of ~4000 chars (of
> course, I didn't knew that it was so big), and abiword was bombing. And
> I was absolutely lost in gdb, because UT_DEBUGMSG is a macro (now that I
> know where the problem was, it seems stupid that I didn't see it before,
> but the gdb backtrace was looking like garbage to me)
>
> Enough for a rant.
>
> Every font that I've used is working ok, except the Hershey family, that
> I can select, but that for some weird reason it's giving me an ascender
> and descender ridiculously little (maybe a bug in the font, in freetype,
> in my code, on in a combination of these).
>
> Everything else is working fine (and looking at the number of bug that
> I've fixed, it's working much better than before), except for the little
> "Times New Roman" bug.
>
> When it will be fixed, I will post my last patch, and then I will update
> it to HEAD and commit if nobody sees a problem.
>
HI Joaquin,
Please go ahead and commit when you're ready. You should also
check that DingBat fonts work.
I'm looking forward to getting rid of xap_FontManager.cpp etc.
Cheers
Martin
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