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

[Richard Chirgwin]

  Fingers crossed!

One of the problems Markus cited as associated with database selection, 
which I have *not* experienced. This is strictly fonts. Thanks in 
advance for your efforts & assistance!

Cheers,
Richard

On 28/09/10 7:48 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
> 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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