POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : What's this error message? : Re: What's this error message? Server Time
6 Aug 2024 23:21:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: What's this error message?  
From: Steve Shelby
Date: 9 Jan 2002 07:00:19
Message: <3c3c30d3@news.povray.org>
Thorsten,
Is there any way I can fix that myself, or am I just out of luck with that
font?
Hmm... I just realized that I was able to use that font sucessfully a couple
months ago, before I had to replace my hard drive and re-install everything.
Maybe I should try a new download of the font?
Steve

Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3c3c25b9@news.povray.org...
> In article <3c3af609@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:
>
> >   It means that an unexpected error happened (one could call it a bug).
This
> > is a problem in the source code of POV-Ray and it's nothing you can
remedy
> > by yourself (unless you fix the problem in the source code, of course).
> >   Trying to allocate a 0-size block is always a sign that some sanity
check
> > is missing.
>
> Actually, it is a corrupted font file and POV-Ray doesn't catch the
problem
> early enough.  In the particular font file there is an empty kerning
table.
>
>     Thorsten
>
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