Re: [ft-devel] Render a text on Horizontal using a ttf file which contains also Vertical metrics (Re: Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 148, Issue 25)

[Hin-Tak Leung]

That's an interesting error - I have only ever seen it under wine, and I think 
it is a bug in wine. Usually you just run the software again and it works the 
second time. That's why I suspect it is a bug in wine (about synchronization, 
etc). Are you actually seeing that error under genuine windows? and what 
version of windows?

I see the public chm of Font Validator at the repo is still the April 2016 
version (before FontVal 2.0) and I haven't put the current edition out - in the 
current private one, under Error 6000, I have added that if anybody sees that 
error (especially under wine), please just re-run:

'Running FontVal 1.0 (and perhaps 2.0 too) under wine can occasionally result 
in error A6000, "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an 
indication that other memory is corrupt." . This is intermittent and a problem 
with wine. Users should simply re-run.'

It is a pity about the company policy. If it makes your employer happier, I can 
enter into a confidential agreement with your company to look at the matter in 
a confidential manner like a small one-off normal commercial consultancy task 
(at a fee, of course).

I think it is quite safe to say that I am the only person with C#/SharpFont 
knowledge on the freetype-devel mailing list. You may already realized that 
Font Validator is built on top of SharpFont and freetype, and involves 
additions/enhancements to both. Only a small part of freetype-related 
enhancement goes back to freetype (so far), but almost all of my enhancements 
to SharpFont  eventually went back to SharpFont. You can see that in 
SharpFont's changelogs / issue trackers.

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On Tue, 23/5/17, DanY <address@hidden> wrote:

 Hello,I
 tried to add the whole content, instead of
 "freetype.dll". but I received errors from
 "SharpFont""An unhandled exception
 of type 'System.AccessViolationException' occurred
 in SharpFont.dll 
 
 Additional information: Attempted to read or write
 protected memory. This is often an indication that other
 memory is corrupt."
 Also I can't send you the ttf
 files due to the company's policy... :(
 Anyway, thank you for your support
 and if I found anything else relevant, I will inform
 you.
 Best
 regards,Daniel