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

[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!