Hi,
Am 22.03.2013 14:40, schrieb Wolfgang Glas:
Am 22.03.13 14:29, schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler:
Hi,
Am 22.03.2013 13:56, schrieb Wolfgang Glas:
Hi all,
Andreas has kindly integrated my TTFSubFont class into pdfbox-1.8.0.
I just started the integration. We are far away from the end.
Thanks again for sharing the code with us.
However, we are experiencing crashes of Minolta printers, which stumble
across some subtle Problems in the extracted TTF fonts generated by this
class. Most notably, the font checksum is calculated to an invalid value
among other more subtle issues.
Is this because I integrated some of your stuff or because of how I
integrated
your stuff?
It has nothing to do with the way you are intergrating the code. These
are all TTF-related misunderstandings I introduced myself.
Sounds like my own experience, this font stuff is hard to understand if it
comes to the details. :-(
The problem is, that Minolta Printer are less tolerant on TTF problems
than all PDF viewer I've tested so far.
OK, I see
Do you think it is a blocker for all or just for you? Maybe we should
release
1.8.0 as is and do another bugfix release in a couple of weeks?
It is a blocker for all users of TTFSubFont, because their users will cheat
them on breaking their Minolta printers like I've been cheated by my
customer.
I have a fix in my original code, which is build atop of pdfbox-1.7.1. I
have not switched over to 1.8.0 so far, but surely I'd love to see a
pdfbox-1.8.0 with working TTSubFont class.
I tend to release 1.8.0 anyway as people are waiting for the new version and
now that it is almost done I'm afraid some of them will become impatient if
we stop it at this point. Furthermore I don't want to put some additional
pressure on you to deliver a fix for that issue. Once your fix is available I
can cut a new bugfix release. Maybe some other changes will be available too.
WDYT?
Wolfgang
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
