[poppler] fontconfig not shut down

[Vincent Torri]

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote:

> A Diumenge, 29 de març de 2009, Vincent Torri va escriure:
>> Hey,
>>
>> in the destructor of a globalParams, fontconfig is not shut dows while it
>> is initialized in the constructor.
>
> The problem with this patch is that FcInit is ok if you already had called it
> somewhere else (Qt, Pango, etc) but FcFini is bad because it'll finish
> fontconfig and you won't be able to use it again after deleting GlobalParams.
>
> I see there's a potential problem here but this is not the solution, maybe the
> solution would be not calling FcInit at all and asking the poppler user to
> pass it along but i doubt Qt let's you access its internal FontConfig member.

I've just look at the code and indeed FcFini() does not take into accout 
that problem (that's quite annoying... and stupid, imho)

> All in all i don't think this is a BIG problem since you're supposed to only
> have a GlobalParams for all the lifetime of your program.

indeed, but i like closing my app with releasing all the memory cleanly.

ok, let's leave with it.

Vincent Torri