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KevinH · 12-04-2014, 12:53 PM

Hi,

There are numerous bug reports on the QtWebKit site in Qt 5.3.2 surrounding and aborts due to improperly allocated memeory. These seem to be compiler dependent, so using Doug's Sigil version for Windows might work as it uses a completely different version of the compiler for Qt and Sigil.

Alternatively, there are reports fo similar failures from using bad fonts and causing crashes. There was one font change in 0.8.2 that went from using "Consolas" as the default CodeView font to "Courier New" as the default font to fix another reported bug.

So if you can get Sigil 0.8.1 or 0.8.2 to to work, try changing the Sigil Appearance Preferences for CodeView to some other fixed width font and see if your troubles go away.

Users of this Sigil version who kept their previous settings would *not* see this change as the font would still default to Consolas for them. Only new users and clean installs will be impacted by the font change if the problem is indeed related to a bad font.

Please let me know if any of these help.

Thanks,

KevinH

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KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,884 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Hi, There are numerous bug reports on the QtWebKit site in Qt 5.3.2 surrounding and aborts due to improperly allocated memeory. These seem to be compiler dependent, so using Doug's Sigil version for Windows might work as it uses a completely different version of the compiler for Qt and Sigil. Alternatively, there are reports fo similar failures from using bad fonts and causing crashes. There was one font change in 0.8.2 that went from using "Consolas" as the default CodeView font to "Courier New" as the default font to fix another reported bug. So if you can get Sigil 0.8.1 or 0.8.2 to to work, try changing the Sigil Appearance Preferences for CodeView to some other fixed width font and see if your troubles go away. Users of this Sigil version who kept their previous settings would not see this change as the font would still default to Consolas for them. Only new users and clean installs will be impacted by the font change if the problem is indeed related to a bad font. Please let me know if any of these help. Thanks, KevinH Last edited by KevinH; 12-04-2014 at 05:30 PM.