Re: [evince] Evince Windows XP Assertion Failed

[Hib Eris <hib hiberis nl>]

Hi Mark,

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Vallevand, Mark K
<Mark Vallevand unisys com> wrote:
> I found the problem.  I did not have the full set of fonts installed.  This is Windows XP embedded edition.  I only included the minimum set of fonts.  Apparently, only 5 fonts isn't enough.  When I include the full set of fonts, there is no error.
>
> I don't consider this to be an error.

Well, I think poppler should handle the missing font a little more
gracefully. Just exiting with an assert is not very nice for a
library.

>  However, it would be useful to document that evince/poppler uses the system fonts.  Adobe reader apparently installs its own fonts.  It does not fail when only the minimum 5 system fonts are installed.

Can you tell me what these 'minimum 5 system fonts' are? I guess
poppler should use one of these as a fallback and when even these are
not available, it should return an error instead of exiting.

Hib