[vtkusers] vtkTextActor segfaults my render window

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Thursday 10 December 2009 17:46:24 Sean McBride wrote:
> On 12/10/09 9:31 AM, Jérôme said:
> >I found back the gdb backtrace concerning
> > vtk_freetype_FTC_CMapCache_Lookup, in a "Invalid read of size 4" section.
> > I let you look into the log file, since I don't know much about that!
> 
> VTK's freetype is a little out of date, I've been meaning to update it
> and this might be another good reason to do so.  Not that I know for
> sure that this is actually a bug in freetype...
> 
May be try building VTK with the system freetype? I have done this and it 
works well aside from some tests failing due to what looks like improved text 
rendering.

Turn on VTK_USE_SYSTEM_FREETYPE and rebuild to see if this helps.

Marcus
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