Re: [evince] Evince Windows XP Assertion Failed

["Vallevand, Mark K" <Mark Vallevand UNISYS com>]

This is my observation.  The bare minimum set of fonts that Window XP embedded requires you to have are:
- Microsoft San Serif
- Tahoma
- Tahoma Bold
- Western Europe Font Substitute
- Marlett
- VGA OEM
- EGA

I do not know what other Windows embedded products require for minimum fonts sets.  Windows 7 embedded may do something different.

I agree that a library should not assert.  I looks like Poppler looks first for the desired font, then looks for an alternate, then assert.  Rather than assert, it should look fall back to some very basic font.  Maybe it should get the list of installed fonts and just use one, no matter how ugly.

Regards.
Mark K Vallevand   Mark Vallevand Unisys com <mailto:Mark Vallevand Unisys com> 

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-----Original Message-----
From: jj hiberis nl [mailto:jj hiberis nl] On Behalf Of Hib Eris
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 8:58 AM
To: Vallevand, Mark K
Cc: evince-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [evince] Evince Windows XP Assertion Failed

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