[GRASS-dev] Re: [bug #4905] (grass) gis.m: d.text.freetype does not allow spaces in text

Glynn Clements glynn at gclements.plus.com
Thu Aug 31 09:08:20 EDT 2006


Hamish wrote:

> > I've changed FT_LOAD_DEFAULT to FT_LOAD_NO_BITMAP not to try to load
> > embedded bitmaps.  Could you please test this code?
> 
> Hi, I've just updated to the latest HEAD code...
> 
> I still get the same result if text="" has a space in it.
>   (my usual test is text="`g.version`")
> 
> Monitor <x0>: Premature EOF
> Floating point exception
> 
> Without a space it works fine.
> 
> I expect I am seeing the 2.2.1 ft_render_mode_mono bugfix backported to
> Debian/stable's libfreetype 2.1.7 (with the latest Debian secuirty fix),
> and this is actually is breaking it!  (???)
> 
> Maybe we can get a non-Debian non-FT 2.2.1 tester to try? (otherwise we
> are compounding bugs which makes things very difficult to trial)

I suggest adding a flag to d.text.freetype to choose between
normal/mono rendering modes.

I can do this, but I don't want to make any changes if Huidae is also
working on d.text.freetype.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>




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