VW hang after changing fonts?

Ok.. I bought a slick (and expensive) programming font and have
been using it at work and find it very pleasing to the eyes.. So, I
figured I'd try to use it on my Mac (using OSX).. So, I load it up
(it's a TTF font) and can see/use it just fine in the Terminal.app..
However, I re-did my "fixed" font in VW to use the new font and
after applying the update and changing the settings, I find that VW
hangs after a few seconds -- it updated a couple of windows but
not all.  It finally came up indicating it ran out of memory and then
died.. Is there some sort of issue w/ some fonts not being usable?
Just thought I'd ask.  I'm sure I could probably re-produce the
issue if needed.

-- Rick

Can you send me the font. I am currently working a related font issue
and while I am at it I will try to fix this one as well.

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Flower [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 8:27 PM
To: Visualworks Mailing List
Subject: VW hang after changing fonts?

Ok.. I bought a slick (and expensive) programming font and have
been using it at work and find it very pleasing to the eyes.. So, I
figured I'd try to use it on my Mac (using OSX).. So, I load it up
(it's a TTF font) and can see/use it just fine in the Terminal.app..
However, I re-did my "fixed" font in VW to use the new font and
after applying the update and changing the settings, I find that VW
hangs after a few seconds -- it updated a couple of windows but
not all.  It finally came up indicating it ran out of memory and then
died.. Is there some sort of issue w/ some fonts not being usable?
Just thought I'd ask.  I'm sure I could probably re-produce the
issue if needed.

-- Rick

Glazier, Sean wrote:
> Can you send me the font. I am currently working a related font issue
> and while I am at it I will try to fix this one as well.
>  
Sean,

I was able to reproduce this after playing around a while.  I don't even
need my new font to
mess things up.  Below are the steps to use on a vanilla 7.5 installation:

1) Bring up the visualnc image
2) bring up the painter (Painter->new canvas)
3) under the "edit" menu, select "Named Fonts->Define Named Fonts"
4) select "fixed" in the left pane
5) on the right pane, select "Geneva", then hit "Assign to named font",
followed by "close"
6) In the System Settings window, select "Tools" and change the
"text-size" to "fixed" and hit apply

Boom.. You should have an endlessly GC'ing VM.. Note that I did this on
a Powermac G4 (1.67Ghz) if that matters.  I can do this on a fully
populated VM as well but will almost always get a core dump after a
while -- doing it on the vanilla image seems to take a much longer time...

Rick Flower escreveu:
 > Glazier, Sean wrote:
 >> Can you send me the font. I am currently working a related font issue
 >> and while I am at it I will try to fix this one as well.
 >>
 > Sean,
 >
 > I was able to reproduce this after playing around a while.  I don't even
 > need my new font to
 > mess things up.  Below are the steps to use on a vanilla 7.5
installation:
 >
 > 1) Bring up the visualnc image
 > 2) bring up the painter (Painter->new canvas)
 > 3) under the "edit" menu, select "Named Fonts->Define Named Fonts"
 > 4) select "fixed" in the left pane
 > 5) on the right pane, select "Geneva", then hit "Assign to named font",
 > followed by "close"
 > 6) In the System Settings window, select "Tools" and change the
 > "text-size" to "fixed" and hit apply
 >
 > Boom.. You should have an endlessly GC'ing VM.. Note that I did this on
 > a Powermac G4 (1.67Ghz) if that matters.  I can do this on a fully
 > populated VM as well but will almost always get a core dump after a
 > while -- doing it on the vanilla image seems to take a much longer
time...
 >
I cannot find a Geneva font be it in Linux or Windows XP SP2. Does this
font is "system native" in Mac OS or does it come with some specific
application?

--
Cesar Rabak
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Cesar Rabak wrote:
> I cannot find a Geneva font be it in Linux or Windows XP SP2. Does
> this font is "system native" in Mac OS or does it come with some
> specific application?
>
Geneva is a regular font on OSX, but I suspect other fonts will elude
the same effect since I've seen it with several including courier if I
recall..