El Divendres, 6 d'abril de 2012, a les 22:59:17, [email protected] va escriure: > Dear Albert, > > On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:14:47 +0200 > > Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> wrote: > >El Dilluns, 2 d'abril de 2012, a les 18:50:16, [email protected] > >va> > >escriure: > >> I think, pdffonts should notice how the fonts are fallbacked > >> in the rasterization (or the conversion to vector output > >> device), primarily. > > > >Are you speaking of pdffonts -subst here? Seems to work fine for me. Or are > >you saying it doesn't work in Windows? > > Thank you very much for clarification that this is Windows > issue. I'm quite sorry for unclear mention about this. > > Yes, I'm speaking of "pdffonts -subst". On Windows, the result > by "pdffonts -subst" for a sample PDF of base14 fonts > ( https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48040 ), > is inconsistent with the rasterization result of pdftoppm. > > The "pdffonts -subst" on Windows is like following. > > name object ID substitute font > substitute font file ------------------------------------ --------- > ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ > Courier-BoldOblique 14 0 C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf > C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf Helvetica > 15 0 C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf > Helvetica-Oblique 16 0 C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf > C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf Helvetica-Bold > 17 0 C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf > Helvetica-BoldOblique 18 0 C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf > C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf Times-Roman > 19 0 C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf > Times-Italic 20 0 C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf > C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf Times-Bold > 21 0 C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf > Times-BoldItalic 22 0 C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf > C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf Symbol > 24 0 [none] C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\SYMBOL.TTF > ZapfDingbats 26 0 C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf > C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf CourierNew > 27 0 C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf > CourierNew,Italic 28 0 [none] > C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\COUR.TTF CourierNew,Bold > 29 0 [none] C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\COUR.TTF > CourierNew,BoldItalic 30 0 [none] > C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\COURI.TTF Arial > 31 0 [none] C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ARIAL.TTF > Arial,Italic 32 0 [none] > C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ARIALI.TTF Arial,Bold > 33 0 [none] C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ARIALBD.TTF > Arial,BoldItalic 34 0 [none] > C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\ARIALBI.TTF TimesNewRoman > 35 0 [none] C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\TIMES.TTF > TimesNewRoman,Italic 36 0 [none] > C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\TIMESI.TTF TimesNewRoman,Bold > 37 0 [none] C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\TIMESBD.TTF > TimesNewRoman,BoldItalic 38 0 [none] > C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\TIMESBI.TTF Courier > 39 0 C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf > Courier-Oblique 40 0 C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf > C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf Courier-Bold > 41 0 C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\arial.ttf > > It looks like as if Courier and Times-Roman will be substituted > by Arial. It is unwanted result. But, as you can find by the pictures > (pdftoppm) on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48040 , > Courier is substituted by Courier New, Times-Roman is substituted > by Timew New Roman (it is wanted result). I think pdffonts is > expected to return the font substititions that pdftoppm will do.
Of course, what's the point otherwise? > If the consistency between pdftoppm and "pdffonts -subst" is > agreed, I will post a patch. However, the change by my patch for > this issue will modifies non-Windows part too. So I don't want to > do it for 0.20 because insufficient time to testing. > > >> As the extra features, the indication of > >> the last rule choosing the final result would be helpful, > >> when poppler have external configuration file to control the > >> font substition (it's since 0.20!). > > > >External configuration file to control font substitution is something we do > >*not* want. > > Oh, thank you again for the clarification. I remember your > attitude about external configuration file when we discussed > about the hint control - I know you don't want it, and I will > follow your decision. But, the patch by Thomas for GlobalParamsWin.cc > includes a feature to use external font substitution mapping > table "cidfmap". It should be removed, or should be kept? That's true, I still can't believe Windows API does not have something similar to fontconfig. Maybe we can lift/relax the no external font stuff for Windows? Anyone else has other opinions on that? Albert > > commit dae29c6c201cd69cbf4f008de865cc19a36f29b3 > Author: Thomas Freitag <[email protected]> > Date: Sun Mar 4 15:22:02 2012 +0100 > > CJK substitute implementation on WIndows platforms. > > When You install ghostscript on WIndows You're able to switch on CJK > support. This will create a cidfmap file in the gs-lib directory. The > ps file which creates it (mkcidfm.ps) runs over the windows font > directory and tries to create a suitable substitution table for missing > CJK fonts. The cidfmap file is more or less PDF like, so it's quite easy > to parse it with our parser and create a substitution table in > GlobalParamsWin and use that table. But I expect it in the poppler data dir > instead of searching for ghostscript installation. If it is not there, it > always returns the default CID font of point 2. > You can either copy it from the gs lib directory or create it with the > ghostscript tool calling > > gswin32c -q -dBATCH -sFONTDIR=<windows font directory> > -sCIDFMAP=<popper data dir>/cidfmap mkcidfm.ps > > In my personal opinion, I'm questionable about the requirement > of this feature. There might be some people who want to make the > font substitutions by Ghostscript and poppler-related softwares > aligned, and "cidfmap" support may be useful for their purpose. > > But, at present, cidfmap support is only implemented for Windows > (to serve for the people expecting same font substitution, non- > Windows platforms should support cidfmap, I think), and, Ghostscript > is not good tool to generate & maintain cidfmap automatically. > > What should we do for "cidfmap" feature? > > Regards, > mpsuzuki > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
