Re: using the SS (slanted symbol) font with gropdf

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Alexis,

At 2022-11-27T11:10:35+1100, Alexis wrote:
> "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> writes:
> > evince also complains.  Apart from the usual handful of Gtk-WARNING
> > and Gtk-CRITICAL diagnostics, because cool kids like GNOME
> > developers never look at the standard error stream ("terminal
> > window?  what would I need that for?"), I get this.
> > 
> > some font thing failed
[repeat 9 times]
> > 
> > One might, at this point, begin to appreciate why I'm such a cranky
> > old bastard about diagnostic messages being informative.
> 
> As a cranky old bat on this topic myself, i just had to take a few
> minutes to find the source of this effort to further lower the bar of
> error message quality.

Thank you for digging into this!

> It turns out it's coming from Poppler, not Evince, in
> CairoFontEngine.cc:
> 
>    fprintf(stderr, "some font thing failed\n");

Aha.  Poppler.  Hmm.  Why am I not surprised?

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/776

Regards,
Branden

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