Re: [evince] Evince Windows XP Assertion Failed

["jose aliste gmail com" <jose aliste gmail com>]

Hib, one basic question, are we using fontconfig on the windows build? 


On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Hib Eris <hib hiberis nl> wrote:
> 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
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