From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/54747 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: font-syn.lua error Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:00:20 +0100 Message-ID: <4B0CF224.6040104@elvenkind.com> References: <6EB9F6E0-988D-4284-99CF-FBCDF92A5446@uni-koblenz.de> <4B092B91.8040003@wxs.nl> <4B09391D.9090801@wxs.nl> <20091122140040.GB11240@khaled-laptop> <4B09AAE0.90504@wxs.nl> <0A1A466E-ADDA-4AE1-804D-198EB194BA4D@uni-bonn.de> <9417CE52-28B8-4160-9471-FCFF8D5612E7@uni-bonn.de> <4B0CED99.4020504@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259139636 10993 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2009 09:00:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:00:36 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Nov 25 10:00:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NDDjh-0003iV-3i for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:00:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C233AC9C12; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:57:41 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id MEjFpTSsv34W; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:57:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCB4DC9C22; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:57:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C47DC9C22 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:57:36 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 6lpFSQOla1LF for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:57:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.36]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB555C9C12 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:57:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [192.168.178.26] (boo.demon.nl [82.161.175.147]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nAP90KT7015059 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:00:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from taco@elvenkind.com) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090330) In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:54747 Archived-At: luigi scarso wrote: > ah I've seen it just now > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> mupdf quite often crashes on completely valid pdf documents, effectively >> making it useless in practice. > hm > bad news, > >> What's worse: those bugs are hard to fix >> because some really bad implementation decisions were made. > What are these decisions ? Using the C stack for recursion is the main problem. Pdfs with a large number of objects (annots) are likely to exhaust the stack, resulting in a hard crash of mupdf. Best wishes, Taco ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________