Draw crash

PiHard Raspberry Pi4 RISC OS 5.28

I’ve extracted some pages from a PDF as Draw files. When I worked on them to amend them. Draw crashes; often when trying to save.

Reporter shows…

Error : &80000200
Message: Floating point exception: invalid operation
14:08:45.97 * WimpError * from Draw
Error : &00000000
Message: Draw has gone wrong (Floating point exception: invalid operation): attempting to preserve files in <WIMP$ScrapDir>.Draw before exiting
14:08:45.97 Exec
14:08:54.46 Exec

I’ve tried to replicate this using a fresh draw page & doing some stuff then saving but the fault hasn’t happened.

Could the fault be in Draw or the files created from !PDF? As far as I can tell from “Info” etc, the files seem OK.

Anyone seen this before?

More info. Forget the saving bit. It’s just happened when I was typing characters on the Draw page.

Dodgy font?

Sysem Font. I completed the document on the RiscPC with Adjust 4.39. No problems there.

The PDF was quite complex. Lots of text & boxes to fill in.
The text in the extracted Draw file was in Homerton & Trinity, standard RISC OS fonts. I started typing & Draw chose System so I stuck with that.

Sorted. It seems it was the bug whereby 5.28 couldn’t cope with too many modules. Thanks to Stuart Painting who suggested *Configure Monitortype 4 which cured it.

Thanks to Stuart Painting who suggested *Configure Monitortype 4 which cured it.

If that’s the answer then update to 5.29 is the fix and what you did is a work around.

Ta. I might live with my work around & wait for 5.30 stable. Cowardice is my watchword!!! ;-)

I have 5.28 running with 160+ modules. I think that’s higher than the limit that was present.

Cowardice is my watchword!!! ;-)

It ain’t paranoia if they are picking on you :)

I have 5.28 running with 160+ modules. I think that’s higher than the limit that was present.

Wasn’t that bug found right at the 5.28 release and the Pi4 release.
Then there was a second 5.28 suitable for Pi4, with the module limit fix perhaps?