Hi Alexis,
At 2022-11-27T11:10:35+1100, Alexis wrote:
> "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@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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