[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 50992] library should be thread-safe

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50992

--- Comment #33 from Albert Astals Cid <tsdgeos at terra.es> 2012-08-07 20:59:26 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #30)
> (In reply to comment #24)
> 
> > 
> > Well, i understand that having rendering work is great, but if we are going to
> > make it thread-safe it should be really thread-safe everywhere, i.e. can i ask
> > for the fonts of the document while it's rendering? That's the typical use case
> > were okular now blocks
> 
> Exactly, and the reason why Evince uses a single worker thread.

Which means you block if the user requests two things at the same time (like
render a page and tell me the fonts it uses ;-))

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