forcemerge 740801 761823
thanks
On 2014-09-16 12:14, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
Package: libpoppler46
Version: 0.26.4-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80093
Hi,
evince, i.e. the PDF rendering engine behind it and thus poppler,
fails
to render fi/fl ligatures for certain documents. This happens, if the
document has been created with the Times Type 1 font and then
rendered
with the TeX Gyre Termes OTF font, which is a metric compatible
substitute. The reason is that in the Type 1 font the ligature glyphs
are called "fi" and "fl" whereas they are called "f_i" and "f_l" in
the
OTF font.
Since both nomenclatures are right according to the Adobe specs,
poppler
should search for the respective other if it canot find the requested
ligature glyph in the current font. The attached patch does exactly
that
and I can confirm that it works. It has also been submitted upstream
[1], but they have shown no reaction recently.
This is already bug #740801, no need to open the 7th duplicate of
it...
Thus I am asking you to
include it in the Debian package, which inturn might raise the
incentive
for upstream to merge it as well.
I'm not too keen to play such games, especially with a patch that got
a positive feedback on the concept only, and not on the actual
implementation ([1]). Furthermore, this is something upstream needs to
run regression testing on.
[1] note this is not a judgment on your patch
Thanks for your work, but this needs to go upstream first.
--
Pino Toscano
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