Thanks for testing Philipp..

Wonderful! Thanks Sergey.

Sure.

Download the latest release version here https://www.blender.org/download/ and test again.

Looks like it was fixed https://blenderartists.org/t/blender-2-8-to-after-effects-exporter/1161382/3 Anybody tested this yet? I certainly will if I get the chance (busy).

Great. This was a really positive experience. Have a good one ?

No crash! Working nicely now. Brill. Thanks Sebastian. So I take it your next step is to make an alteration to the code and submit that for inclusion? I have not coded for decades and that was ASM way back. This OO stuff and GIT is currently outside of my scope of understanding.

Is this ok?

Yeah that's working fine. Ok now what info do you require there is a whole heap of stuff, I'll leave it in it's Exception Thrown state and await some instruction.

Ok I don't want to take any ones time up unnecessarily so can somebody link or give brief instructions on what steps I need to do to some debugging? I have installed everything required to compile Blender, which I just tested and it's compiling fine from cmd line.

I shall get set up so I can build blender, I'll report back when I have some more details..

Alright, I decided to copy my entire fonts folder in alphabetical order into a new fonts folder on the desktop, tested after copying each letters worth and at the end of that process nothing at all. My entire windows/fonts folder is duplicated on my desktop and it works flawlessly.

Great idea, just tested it by pointing blender at a folder on my desktop with 900 duplications of the font Arial and Interestingly enough there is no failure condition this time which has me thinking could I have a rogue/corrupt font on both my systems and if so doe's this mean that there is some kind of problem with Blenders thumbnail generator or some kind of font handling error checking? (wild guesses obviously)

That is a tricky one, I could google around for a "free" font archive but I would hate to post here and link to any shadey archive of fonts, fonts require licensing unless they are blatantly CC open etc.. Other than that finding a free font site and downloading them manually would be the other solution, time consuming though..