GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 160761
Change of Font to e.g. webdings crashes gnumeric (windows)
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Change the Font of one cell with some text in it from e. g. arial to webdings An error occurs which says: **ERROR**:file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed:(glyphs->num_glyphs > 0) aborting...
Looks like a pango problem.
You should probably let us know what pango version you are using. Owen: note the OS.
Reassigning to win32 component... presumably a basic-win32 shaper problem. (Knowing the version of Pango would help)
pango-version which comes with gnumeric-1.3.9?-rc1
Who's build of gnumeric?
The build is found at http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/downloads.shtml (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gladewin32/gnumeric-1.3.92-rc1.exe) Re garding the version of Pango, I am told: <jody> gmorten: likely 1.4 which is what Tor is shipping
Does this happen with "normal" fonts, too, or just symbol fonts like Webdings?
at least arial an sans worked fine - I can not check now but i think it depends to symbol fonts I cna check this maybe Monday if needed.
i have seen this happen with Marlett and Symbol too, which are also symbol fonts. oddly enough, Dingbats works fine. i have not experienced problems with sans, courier, times, helvetica, or other "normal" fonts... http://www.gnome.org/~jody/gnumeric/win32/gnumeric-1.4.1-rc1.exe this uses pango 1.4.x since it causes the calling application to abort, i'm going to increase the severity.
On the other hand, one thinks the user would get the hint relatively quickly, "don't try to use symbol fonts"? (That doesn't mean it should be allowed to crash, of course.)
Looks the same as bug 151068 ... if the basic-win32 shaper can't use the font it is returning an empty glyph string. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151068 ***
*** Bug 161940 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***