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From: Anthony D Baye
Subject: PoV Crash when rendering fonts in Tiger
Date: 14 Apr 2006 03:59:22
Message: <443f565a@news.povray.org>
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Subject line pretty much says it. Every time I try to use a font that
isn't a vanilla .ttf file, PoV crashes. It only happens when the fonts
in question are contained in font suitcases, but I have no way to remove
the fonts from their suitcases.
I copied the following from the automatic report that Tiger generates
when a program crashes.
Date/Time: 2006-04-14 01:54:29.226 -0600
OS Version: 10.4.6 (Build 8I127)
Report Version: 4
Command: POV-Ray Mac 3.6
Path: /Applications/POV-Ray 3.6/POV-Ray Mac 3.6 Folder/POV-Ray Mac 3.6
Parent: WindowServer [62]
Raytracer Pty. Ltd., All rights reserved.)
PID: 1112
Thread: 0
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xfaf24014
Thread 0 Crashed:
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90005f6c syscall + 12
1 com.apple.OpenTransport 0x99b125a0 BSD_waitevent + 44
2 com.apple.OpenTransport 0x99b17360 CarbonSelectThreadFunc + 176
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002ba68 _pthread_body + 96
Any help would be appreciated.
ADB
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From: Christian Walther
Subject: Re: PoV Crash when rendering fonts in Tiger
Date: 14 Apr 2006 11:38:16
Message: <443fc1e8$1@news.povray.org>
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Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> Subject line pretty much says it. Every time I try to use a font that
> isn't a vanilla .ttf file, PoV crashes. It only happens when the fonts
> in question are contained in font suitcases,
I think POV-Ray is just not designed to take anything but vanilla .ttf
files - but of course it should give you an error message, not a crash,
if you give it something different (like a suitcase).
> but I have no way to remove the fonts from their suitcases.
Have a look at TTConverter:
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/4632>
It runs in Classic on PPC Macs, if you're on an Intel Mac use Basilisk
or SheepShaver.
-Christian
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From: Anthony D Baye
Subject: Re: PoV Crash when rendering fonts in Tiger
Date: 14 Apr 2006 14:40:36
Message: <443feca4@news.povray.org>
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Christian Walther wrote:
> Anthony D. Baye wrote:
>
>> Subject line pretty much says it. Every time I try to use a font that
>> isn't a vanilla .ttf file, PoV crashes. It only happens when the
>> fonts in question are contained in font suitcases,
>
>
> I think POV-Ray is just not designed to take anything but vanilla .ttf
> files - but of course it should give you an error message, not a crash,
> if you give it something different (like a suitcase).
>
>> but I have no way to remove the fonts from their suitcases.
>
>
> Have a look at TTConverter:
> <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/4632>
>
> It runs in Classic on PPC Macs, if you're on an Intel Mac use Basilisk
> or SheepShaver.
>
> -Christian
>
Thanks, Christian. TTConverter worked like a charm. That'll be a BIG help.
Regards,
ADB
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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: PoV Crash when rendering fonts in Tiger
Date: 14 Apr 2006 15:08:18
Message: <443ff322$1@news.povray.org>
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Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> Subject line pretty much says it. Every time I try to use a font that
> isn't a vanilla .ttf file, PoV crashes. It only happens when the fonts
> in question are contained in font suitcases, but I have no way to remove
> the fonts from their suitcases.
There are no font suitcases under Mac OS X, so whatever you are trying to
feed POV-Ray probably isn't even a font.
How exactly are you specifying the font anyway?
Thorsten
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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> Anthony D. Baye wrote:
>
>> Subject line pretty much says it. Every time I try to use a font that
>> isn't a vanilla .ttf file, PoV crashes. It only happens when the
>> fonts in question are contained in font suitcases, but I have no way
>> to remove the fonts from their suitcases.
>
>
> There are no font suitcases under Mac OS X, so whatever you are trying
> to feed POV-Ray probably isn't even a font.
>
> How exactly are you specifying the font anyway?
>
> Thorsten
I beg to differ. The files in question seem to contain the font
definitions much the same way as a suitcase would.
The file type is FFIL but the info pane identifies it as a "Font
Suitcase" there are also dfonts which are identified as Datafork
TrueType. My font folder contains very few actual .ttf files.
And I've been specifying the font by name. "Courier" or "Courier New" I
tried "Courier.ttf" as well, the result was always a crash.
But no matter. Using a converter fixes the problem.
Regards,
ADB
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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: PoV Crash when rendering fonts in Tiger
Date: 14 Apr 2006 17:41:06
Message: <444016f2$1@news.povray.org>
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Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> The file type is FFIL but the info pane identifies it as a "Font
> Suitcase" there are also dfonts which are identified as Datafork
> TrueType. My font folder contains very few actual .ttf files.
naturally you can copy any file to the Mac OS X fonts folder, but that
doesn't it will be recognized as a valid font by anything. You could even
copy an application into the fonts folder if you wanted to.
Your alternatives for Mac OS X are, as you found, to either get the stuff in
the suitcase out of it, or run in Classic.
Thorsten
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