Library crashes when certain font present in Windows (screenshot provided)

[rBurgett]

I have been using this library on my system without trouble for a while, but I have had two client systems which the library refuses to run on. The problem is related to xfiles.ttf (http://cooltext.com/Download-Font-X-Files) which I found on both of their systems. If that font is present in Windows (both 32 and 64 bit), the library crashes. I recreated this on my system by running your tests successfully, then installing the font and running the tests again only to have them fail.

Do you have any idea why this would be happening? I need this fixed before I can send the application to anyone else. If this font crashes the library, I worry that other fonts might do the same. This font does not crash any other Windows applications that I can find. It only crashes this library.

Thanks!

[loilo]

+1 - same font file (xfiles.ttf), same problem.

[rBurgett]

@devongovett: A client has found two more fonts which cause font-manager to crash in Windows. And by crash I mean that it completely crashes Node. As result, I am disabling use of it in our application for the time being. Do you have any idea why font-manager crashes Node when it encounters certain fonts? Sorry, I can't get you copies of the two other fonts at the moment. But the xfiles font I shared above is still a working example... crashes it every time. Thanks for your time!

[devongovett]

@rBurgett this is all on Windows for you as well?

[rBurgett]

It crashes in Windows for me as well if I have that xfiles font installed. I don't have the two other fonts which I was told about yesterday. But just this morning as I was testing things, I installed that font and the tests crashed.

[rBurgett]

@devongovett I got my hands on another one of the trouble fonts. I tried to load it into OSX (in order to see if it crashes font-manager in OSX), but OSX won't let me. Apparently it is a bad font. You can see the message I got below:

So, apparently Windows allows folks to install bad fonts which OSX does not allow. But, unfortunately, I can't control whether or not my clients on Windows have any bad fonts installed.

[rBurgett]

Here is the font. OSX won't let me install it, but Windows installs it no problem.
chimbari.ttf.zip

[devongovett]

Thanks. I'll look into this to see if we can't just ignore the bad fonts.

[rBurgett]

@devongovett That would be great! Thanks a lot.

[devongovett]

Should be fixed by ba3289d. Published to npm in v0.2.1.

Both of the fonts mentioned here have bad name tables. The crash resulted from some strings not existing in the font, but the node module attempting to read them anyway. Please let me know if you find more issues. Thanks!

[rBurgett]

@devongovett As far as I can tell, it works perfectly now... Thanks a lot! I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.

[loilo]

Love to hear that. Thank you!