[tex-k] [tex-live] xdvi problems with empty glyph

Paul Vojta vojta at Math.Berkeley.EDU
Tue Oct 10 22:49:38 CEST 2006


On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:47:04PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > I don't know about xdvi's use of t1lib (that is specific to xdvik,
> > not plain xdvi), but I've been playing with adding freetype2 support
> > to xdvi, and I also get an error with freetype2.  What happens is it
> > returns error code 6 (invalid argument) when I call FT_Load_Glyph()
> > for the character.
> 
> This is a known problem of whitespace characters in FreeType which
> I've already fixed in the FreeType CVS.  We are going to release 2.2.2
> soon (well, `soon', you know, this is a rubber-like term :-).
> 
> Is xdvik using FreeType 2 at all?

Not currently (but "soon"... :=) ).

--Paul


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