PdfWriter GetGraphics throws exception

I've tested your snippet, and it works fine.

So, the next steps are:

• Get the latest version if you don't have it yet. At the moment, 9.3.15 is the last one.

• If not helps, try to figure out what font causes the exception. Here is a small snippet for filling CustomFontRegistry with files from your windows fonts directory one by one. Probably you should get the same exception.
  Code:

  var fr = new CustomFontRegistry();
  
  var fonts = System.IO.Directory
              .GetFiles(@"c:\windows\Fonts\", "*.*")
              .Where(file => (file.ToLower().EndsWith(".otf") || file.ToLower().EndsWith(".ttf") || file.ToLower().EndsWith(".pfb")))
              .ToList();
  
  foreach (var font in fonts)
  {
      Console.WriteLine(font);
      fr.Add(font);
  }

• Try to uninstall that font from your system. If everything works fine, please send us this file.

You can use this link to upload the files directly to our DropBox account if you want.

https://www.dropbox.com/...est/JnG3fjaEVpkqJxbuiws2

So, I have checked your files with the second snippet on Windows 7/8/10, and there is no success.

In GM 9.3 we changed the underlying library for text handling, and I expect the problem is there. But I need to reproduce it on my side. Could you give me more information about your software environment like OS version, updates installed, Visual Studio redistributables version, antivirus software and so on. By the way, you can try to reinstall VS redist, just in case. Our both setups from the website contain the required redistribution files inside.

And could you also send me a crashing dump? If you have Visual Studio on the target machine, just attach to the process after the crash, then DEBUG -> Save Dump As... If not, try to use ProcDump tools from Sysinternals.

It is easy to use:

procdump64.exe -i c:\pd_dumps
RunCrashingConsole.exe
procdump64.exe -u

Edited by moderator Monday, February 26, 2018 3:17:11 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I understand your feelings, and I'm sorry for that. Sometimes such things happen, but we do a lot to minimize it as much as possible.

I reproduced your environment on a clean virtual machine, and there was no success too. Actually, your software configuration is pretty close to mine.

I checked the code, and I think I have an idea what could be wrong. I built a test version of GM. Please try to run it on your side. Here is a console application for testing:

https://www.dropbox.com/...estFontRegistry.zip?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/...tFontRegistry_2.zip?dl=0

InstalledFontRegistry fontRegistry = (InstalledFontRegistry)typeof(InstalledFontRegistry).GetConstructor(
        BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance,
        null, Type.EmptyTypes, null).Invoke(null);

foreach (var font in fontRegistry.Fonts)
{
    Console.WriteLine(font.PostscriptName);
}

Does it throw an exception? If yes, send me the dump, please.

C:\Windows\Fonts\XaraFont.fon

Then run the console again.