Bug 692940

Summary:	Ghostscript gives 'Font Renderer Pluging' error with Freetype 2.4.9
Product:	Font Renderer - gslite	Reporter:	Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl>
Component:	Font Renderer	Assignee:	Tor Andersson <tor.andersson>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	chris.liddell
Priority:	P4
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Customer:		Word Size:	---
Attachments:	Example postscript file gs output in terminal gs error output in terminal

Description Vladimir Lomov 2012-03-21 12:23:14 UTC

Created attachment 8440 [details]
Example postscript file

Hello,
I'm on Archlinux x86_64 with
gcc: 4.6.3
freetype2: 2.4.9
ghostscript compiled from git.

Using either okular or evince or ps2pdf on given example PS file gives error messages in terminal but works:
GPL Ghostscript GIT PRERELEASE 9.06: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1
GPL Ghostscript GIT PRERELEASE 9.06: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1
GPL Ghostscript GIT PRERELEASE 9.06: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1
...

Log and error files
$ gs example.ps > example.log 2> example.err
are attached.

I don't see such messages with freetype 2.4.8.

P.S. Similar report made on bugs.redhat.org:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785151
(I took example file from there)

Comment 1 Vladimir Lomov 2012-03-21 12:24:10 UTC

Created attachment 8441 [details]
gs output in terminal

Comment 2 Vladimir Lomov 2012-03-21 12:24:44 UTC

Created attachment 8442 [details]
gs error output in terminal

Comment 3 Chris Liddell (chrisl) 2012-03-21 12:29:01 UTC

Freetype 2.4.9 is broken, it won't work with Ghostscript, see:

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=35847
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=35833


and fixes in:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=b43e0f44
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=9a55cb7a

Comment 4 Vladimir Lomov 2012-03-21 13:05:22 UTC

Thanks for info,

Sorry for the noise.