Crash when pasting text from MS-Word

Bug #1258232 reported by jazzynico
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Bug Description

Reproduced on Windows XP, Inkscape trunk revision 12836, and MS-Word 2010.

Steps:
1. Type some text in MS-Word, with a wingding2 or wingding3 font.
2. Copy the text.
3. Paste it in Inkscape (with the text tool).
-> Inkscape crashes (no console message).

Not reproduced with wingding, Arial and Times New Roman fonts.

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jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote :

gdb backtrace:
----
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x77c17740 in strcmp () from C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll
(gdb) bt
#0 0x77c17740 in strcmp () from C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll
#1 0x0063ce23 in ftinfo_find_loaded_by_spec ()
#2 0x06c5bb14 in ?? ()
Cannot access memory at address 0x303031d2

ftinfo_find_loaded_by_spec () is called from src/extension/internal/text_reassemble.c

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jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote :

Note to self: to be tested again with the same fonts copied from LibreOffice.

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jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote :

Reproduced again on Windows 7, Inkscape trunk rev. 14751, MS-Word 2010.
Copying from LibreOffice (4.3 and 5.1) doesn't crash, but the font style is not pasted (only the text), so it's not a relevant test.

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Jonathan Hofinger (jhofinger) wrote :

Hi - thanks for reporting this bug, I've manually migrated it to Inkscape's new
bug tracker on GitLab, and closed it here.

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at
http://inkscape.org/report.

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/1476
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/jhofinger

Changed in inkscape:
status: New → Invalid
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