[GRASS-user] Grass-GIS 6.4 font bug in OSX

[William Kyngesburye]

Well, it looks like it's coming from FreeType.  There was this problem with Freetype once, but I thought it was fixed.  Strangely, it doesn't affect dfonts, just TT and OTF fonts.  Snow Leopard is OK.

I can look into my FreeType framework to see if I messed up something in a recent update.

On Sep 27, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:

> On 27/09/10 11:22 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Richard Chirgwin
>> <rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au>  wrote:
>>>  Hi,
>>> 
>>> I've just install 6.4 under OSX 10.5.8, and have run into a problem.
>>> 
>>> Reproduced in Spearfish:
>>> 
>>> d.vect bugsites - OK
>>> 
>>> d.vect bugsites display=attr attrcol=str1 - OK
>>> 
>>> d.vect bugsites display=attr attrcol=str1 font='Arial Italic'
>>> produces this error, repeated many times:
>>> 
>>> The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality
>>> safely. You MUST exec().
>>> Break on
>>> __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__()
>>> to debug.
>>> 
>>> Then the X monitor window closes.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?
>> See
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/377
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2009-April/050038.html
>> and
>> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html#SECDAEMONVSFRAMEWORKS
>> 
>> Markus
>> 
> That's depressing: am I right in assuming it's been observed but there isn't a fix?
> 
> Richard
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