Re: OCR_A_Extended.ttf causing crash

[David Turner]

Hi Thomas,
> 
> I have a font 'OCR_A_Extended.ttf' causing a crash
> in freetype when trying to load and hint the tilde
> ('~') character.
> 
> It is crashing in 'ah_outline_load.' Upon further
> inspection, I noticed that in face->glyph->outline,
> n_points is set to one, and n_contours is set to
> 21539.
> 
> It crashes here:
> freetype2/src/autohint/ahglyph.c:498
> 
> This font came from the BeOS where it renders
> this character as a square.
> 

Are you using Beta8 ? It contains a major bug that
suspiciously looks like what you're describing and
have been fixed in the current snapshot..

If not, let us know..

> If you'd like the font file let me know.
> 
I probably have this font somewhere on my hard
disk but can't find it anymore :-)

Cheers,

- David