Anno domini 2022 Mon, 19 Sep 08:58:00 +0200 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp scripsit:
Ok, I found it: Not a TDE problem, but libreetype has a new bug that kills dia/gimp and kpdf. The offending package is: libfreetype6:amd64 2.12.1+dfsg-3 The working package: libfreetype6:amd64 2.10.4+dfsg-1+deb11u1
Peter and all the other testers, could you check which version of libfreetype you have installed?
Nik
This was a bit too enthusiastic: after a reboot old version of libfreetype still fixes dia, but not kpdf and gimp :(
So further investigation is needed ...
Nik
Anno domini 2022 Mon, 19 Sep 08:38:20 +0200 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp scripsit:
Anno domini 2022 Sun, 18 Sep 14:20:11 -0700 William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
On Sunday 18 September 2022 12:36:20 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2022 Sun, 18 Sep 15:21:22 +0200
One more mystery: I opened Voronoi in kpdf, still only formulas. Then I "Ctrl-P" that file and "preview" "print" ....surprise, surprise, the preview screen showed text plus embedded formulas perfectly!! AND the paper-printout of all! pages was also perfect. The culprit clearly is hidden in kpdf.
Good find.
I just tested that I can mark parts of the pdf, copy the text, and pasting gives the expected content. Somehow kpdf renders the text invisible/transparent/white.
Nik
You may recall that we discussed how to change the colors in kpdf? settings / configure / accessibility / change colors
What does kpdf do if you change these settings? i.e., you can force whatever colors you want, so maybe invisible characters can also be made to show themselves?
Oh, I totally forgot to test these. Well, no changes wahtever settings I choose in kpdf.
But there is another strange thing: I found that "dia" and "gimp" have problems with fonts, too. Gimp simply crashes with no meaningfull error ("ScriptFu error." - yeah, sure), when I try to change a text in "dia", all fonts (even the GUI menu) disappear or better become invisible, as the buttons and dialog items keep the correct size. The Errormessiage is in deed meaningful:
(dia:4223): Pango-WARNING **: 08:33:48.276: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera Sans 345593.26171875' (dia:4223): Pango-WARNING **: 08:33:48.276: font_face status is: error occurred in libfreetype (dia:4223): Pango-WARNING **: 08:33:48.276: scaled_font status is: error occurred in libfreetype
I don't understand why it tries to get a font of 345593.26171875 pt, but I could imagine that kpdf triggers the same error in libfreetype (libfreetype6:amd64 2.12.1+dfsg-3).
Nik
Just a thought ...
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