Error : GeezaPro: FT_Load_Glyph failed: error 6

Question

Hello, I am trying to use UIWebView to open iWork files such as Keynote, Numbers, and Pages files on my iPad app.  I keep getting the following error when trying to open such files "<Error>: GeezaPro: FT_Load_Glyph failed: error 6."  I am able to open files such as Word docs and PDFs, but am having an issue with the iWork files.  Also, I have the .plist supporting the UTI document types for the file types. However, I could not find the recent version of the UTI used for Numbers and Pages though. Does this mean Apple does not support third party apps opening these files?
I read the article about the using file extentions like ".numbers.zip" for iWork '08 or earlier, but I created a .numbers file using iWork '09 and could not open the file.  Do I need to make this a .numbers.zip file to open?  or what file extention/mime type do I need to open such a file?
When I try to open an iWork file, I receive the data, but it is displaying as a bunch of random characters (except for Keynote which is a white screen). The files they act as if they may open (displays progress bar), but never gets to display because of the "<Error>: GeezaPro: FT_Load_Glyph failed: error 6." error.  Someone please help me with this problem! 

Answer 1

I observed this symptom as well. I posted a bug report, 4711, I regret to say on the AUR project, when I should have selected the Arch Linux project. Did you also recently upgrade your freetype2? If your root cause is the same as mine, you might be able to use the workaround of reverting to the earlier version of freetype2. I'm new to Arch but I think the quoted pacman -U command should work for most people; if you're not sure, don't run it without asking a knowledgeable person. Maybe someone who knows will reply to this post.
Edited bug report 4711 content:
After pacman -Syu, which included upgrade to freetype2-2.2.1-2.pkg.tar.gz
foobillard 3.0a-1 started from an xterm crashes immediately at starting, the foobillard window vanishes, and control returns to the xterm, leaving the font-related error message:
"FT_Load_Glyph:error#6"
The crash always happens, in the same way, with the same message.
After "pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/freetype2-2.1.10-3.pkg.tar.gz", foobillard runs normally again.
I can make the problem appear and disappear by switching between the two versions of freetype2.
I read on
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetyp … 2.2.0.html
that some X apps might have problems with this new version of freetype.
The freetype site lists FontConfig 2.3.2 as requiring a patch to work with the new freetype2, and 2.3.2-6 is the latest version of FontConfig for Arch. However, the cvs indicates that the relevant freetype2 patch is applied to the Arch build. The sdl_ttf library is also listed, but sdl_ttf is not required for foobillard. However, libSDL-1.2 is used by foobillard. I'm not an X developer, so it's just speculation on my part that this might be related to the foobillard crashes. The freetype site has instructions for grepping the source code to look for potential problems, but I'm in over my head already.