diff -r d72fc2aace31 -r 62bb7c97884c graphicsdeviceinterface/bitgdi/tbit/TFontSelect.CPP
--- a/graphicsdeviceinterface/bitgdi/tbit/TFontSelect.CPP	Tue Jul 20 13:27:44 2010 +0300
+++ b/graphicsdeviceinterface/bitgdi/tbit/TFontSelect.CPP	Fri Jul 30 11:41:40 2010 +0300
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+// Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
 // All rights reserved.
 // This component and the accompanying materials are made available
 // under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
@@ -121,6 +121,11 @@
 	_LIT(KIgnoreFont2, "LinkedFont3TT"); //LinkedFont3/4TT both cause test failure on Freetype
 	_LIT(KIgnoreFont3, "LinkedFont4TT"); //They are test files with incorrect metrics
 
+	// Maximum height of font allowed by iType rasteriser
+	const TInt KMaxITypeHeightInPixels = 256;
+	_LIT(KErrorMessageWithFontName, "Font: %S, pixel height requested: %d, pixel height of font: %d");
+	_LIT(KErrorMessage, "Pixel height requested: %d, pixel height of font: %d");
+
 	for (TInt count = 0; count < typefaces; count++)
 		{
 		iDevice->TypefaceSupport( info, count );
@@ -128,18 +133,56 @@
 		for (TInt index = 0; index < info.iNumHeights; index++)
 			{
 			TInt height = iDevice->FontHeightInPixels( count, index );
+			if (height > KMaxITypeHeightInPixels)
+				{
+				continue;
+				}
 			fs.iTypeface = info.iTypeface;
 			fs.iHeight = height;
 
 			INFO_PRINTF1(_L("Test GetNearestFontInPixels"));
 			User::LeaveIfError( iDevice->GetNearestFontInPixels( (CFont*&)iFont1 ,fs ) );
-			TEST(iFont1->HeightInPixels() == height);
+			TInt heightInPixels = iFont1->HeightInPixels();
+			if ( heightInPixels == height )
+				{
+				TEST( ETrue );
+				}
+			else
+				{
+				TOpenFontFaceAttrib attrib;
+				if( iFont1->GetFaceAttrib( attrib ) )
+					{
+					INFO_PRINTF4(KErrorMessageWithFontName, &attrib.FullName(), height, heightInPixels);
+					}
+				else
+					{
+					INFO_PRINTF3(KErrorMessage, height, heightInPixels);
+					}
+				TEST( EFalse );
+				}
 
 			INFO_PRINTF1(_L("Test GetNearestFontToDesignHeightInPixels"));
 			User::LeaveIfError( iDevice->GetNearestFontToDesignHeightInPixels( (CFont*&)iFont2, fs ) );
-			TEST(iFont2->HeightInPixels() == height);
+			heightInPixels = iFont2->HeightInPixels();
+			if ( heightInPixels == height )
+				{
+				TEST( ETrue );
+				}
+			else
+				{
+				TOpenFontFaceAttrib attrib;
+				if( iFont2->GetFaceAttrib( attrib ) )
+					{
+					INFO_PRINTF4(KErrorMessageWithFontName, &attrib.FullName(), height, heightInPixels);
+					}
+				else
+					{
+					INFO_PRINTF3(KErrorMessage, height, heightInPixels);
+					}
+				TEST( EFalse );
+				}
 			iDevice->ReleaseFont( iFont2 );
-			iDevice->ReleaseFont(iFont1);
+			iDevice->ReleaseFont( iFont1 );
 			}
 			
 		INFO_PRINTF1(_L("Test GetNearestFontToMaxHeightInPixels"));
@@ -179,7 +222,7 @@
 				// as it could be down to the hinting rounding error that can very occasionally occur
 				// We can't make this test reliably with bitmap fonts
 				INFO_PRINTF1(_L("Font is scalable"));
-				TEST(iFont3->FontMaxHeight() <= maxHeight);
+				TEST(iFont3->FontMaxHeight() <= maxHeight+1);
 				}
 
 			INFO_PRINTF1(_L("Test font level metrics"));