When trying to use the GoudyIn.pfb font with its demo .tex file (all on CTAN), i get a segfault from pdftex. This font has very complicated glyphs, so that the alloc_array macro in writet1.c has to re-allocate memory; this normally never happens -- only with a few fonts as large as GoudyIn.pfb. Unfortunately these are also the nicer fonts that give an icing to pdftex... The problem with such a huge font is, that the xretalloc() function called by alloc_array moves the array base to another address, so any pointer relying on the former array place will now point into nirvana. And there seem to be a few pointers of this type :-( Thorougly fixing this weird re-allocation stuff in writet1.c looks like a complicated and risky thing. A q&d cure to get font GoudyIn.pfb and similar ones running is to once again increase T1_BUF_SIZE in writet1.c: #define T1_BUF_SIZE 0x8000 (Looks safe, and nowadays memory is cheap.) Then it works ok, but only as no re-allocation is needed. It will crash again when even larger glyphs appear, so it's definitely an ugly kludge. (In former times the alloc_array macro itself had a bug, but this has been fixed by Thanh.) What to do? Regards, Hartmut