https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165411

V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> changed:

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           Severity|normal                      |enhancement

--- Comment #6 from V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> ---
A PDF font library only holds the glyphs. Spacing of individual glyphs is
encoded into the Text object streams, which we don't directly parse. Just the
start position, size and text runs themselves.

Much like your ask for bug 165396 it would require much more processing to
parse each Text object stream and then to sum up the stream's glyph positions
and then use that to detect and to distribute as the basis for intercharacter
spacing in the resulting Draw text shape.

Text object conversion now is simple, we read the text run and locate its
position without concern if font use was as fixed or proportionaly spaced.  

Its mostly reliable now, with bidi and complex composite glyphs having
occasional issue, but this would add too much complexity to what is suited to
task now.

IMHO => WF

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