Re: openoffice and X crashing
Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:42:04PM +0200, unai wrote:
> > Well, may it's better said X crashing...?
> >
> > Trying to open a powerpoint presentation file with
> > openoffice.org.1.0.1-5+woody crash X-Windows with a last line X-log:
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > Beziers this big not yet supported
> [...]
> > Have anybody had a similar problem ?
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=107917&repeatmerged=yes
AFAIK this is caused by the PS Type1 engine in Xfree86, sometimes a
result of a font load request with insane sizes (like a 800pixel font)
and sometimes the font itself is broken (pfaedit/type1fix.pl may be able
(not always... ;-( ) to correct the problem) ...
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