Bug 764176

Summary: libfreetype6 upgrade (2.4.4-7.24.1) breaks gs
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4 Reporter: Forgotten User QCVL0e-L35 <forgotten_QCVL0e-L35>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: Fridrich Strba <fstrba>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: fstrba, qantas94heavy, suse-beta
Version: Final   
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Hardware: All   
OS: openSUSE 11.4   
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Description Forgotten User QCVL0e-L35 2012-05-25 16:28:15 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111101 SUSE/3.6.24-0.2.1 Firefox/3.6.24

The latest libfreetype6 upgrade breaks gs. The issue is described at

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692940#c3 and
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/475163-ghostscript-freetype-problems.html

I believe things using ps2pdf are also impacted.

The first URL includes links to patches for freetype and its admission of the problem at https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=35833

Reverting to 2.4.4-7.10.1 fixes the issue (at the expense of failing to fix several potential overflows).



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run gv / gs on any file containing fonts (/Helvetica will do)
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Actual Results:  
Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1

The file may be displayed correctly, but some apps using gs as a helper dislike seeing all these errors.
Comment 1 Karl Cheng 2017-08-12 02:41:23 UTC 
Seems to be the same problem as bug 753249.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 753249 ***