Hi Vincent,

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 01:17:32AM +0100, Adam Sampson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 02:49:40PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Xpdf*font: foo
> [...]
> > $ xpdf
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "foo" to type FontStruct
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> I've been able to reproduce the crash -- it's occurring in Motif when
> xpdf tries to create the text widgets in the About window, with the same
> traceback as in #996903.
> 
> This seems to be because I used XmStringGenerate with a rendition tag to
> style the text. It looks like Motif still thinks that an Xft font is
> being used to render it (which is incorrect), and ends up dereferencing
> NULL because the font hasn't been loaded. I guess this is a Motif bug...
> 
> I've worked around this (in xpopple Git) by styling the widgets using
> resources rather than rendition tags. Specifying Xpdf*font now correctly
> overrides all the default fonts again.

I've just uploaded xpdf 3.04+git20211021-1 including this fix (thanks
Adam!). Can you confirm that it fixes this issue?

Florian

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