I've committed your change to the trunk. I hope I haven't crossed your path. I've had a few other things I wanted to do in this region.
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On 20.11.2002 22:40:50 Karen Lease wrote: > Hi Keiron, > > Feels good to do a little FOP :-) > It's mostly work-related right now which explains why I'm hacking around > in the maintenance branch. But it's better than nothing. > > I think this particular patch should work in trunk too, assuming no > major differences in the embedding logic. I'll look into it. > > -Karen > > Keiron Liddle wrote: > > > Hi Karen, > > > > Welcome back. > > > > Well if it works it looks good to me but I'm no font expert. > > Could that also be applied to trunk? > > > > Be careful the style police might get onto you. > > > > Keiron. > > > > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 23:38, Karen Lease wrote: > > > >>Hi all (and especially Jeremias or other font experts), > >> > >>This bug seems to be due to the way we generate the 'loca' table in the > >>embedded font subsets (CID fonts). In fact, it has offsets to the > >>correct glyph descriptions, but the offsets are not in ascending order. > >>Since it seems that the length of the glyph description is found by > >>subtracting the offset to the glyph from the offset for the next glyph > >>in the loca table, this does not work. For Acrobat, as long as there > >>actually _is_ a glyph description, it seems to work anyway. However for > >>space characters, there is no glyph. Acrobat thinks there is because of > >>the offset, so it draws the glyph that _is_ stored at the offset. > >> > >>This only shows up with SVG text because it has embedded spaces. The > >>spaces in normal text are generally turned into explicit offsets and not > >>drawn as such. > >> > >>The attached diff fixes the bug; though there are perhaps more elegant > >>ways to do it. Does anyone see anything wrong with this idea? > >>If not, I'll commit asap. > >> > >> > >>In fact, using this fix, xpdf now also works with embedded fonts, > >>whereas before it produced garbage. > >> > >>Regards, > >>Karen Lease > >> > >>(Lately very overworked) Senior Software Developer > >>SPX Valley Forge > >>Paris/Munich Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
