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

Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu.org
Tue Oct 10 22:47:04 CEST 2006


> 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?


    Werner


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