Searchable PDFs from Graphite fonts

[Michael Stahl]

hi Jonathan,

On 17/03/13 03:47, Jonathan Schultz wrote:
> I'm referring this question to the developers' list after getting no 
> useful response from the users' list. You can read the original 
> discussion here: 
> http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg24955.html
> 
> The problem seems to be that in converting from text to glyphs (is that 
> the right term?) the PDF converter assigns the wrong text to the glyphs. 
> Thus 'This is the official version' becomes 'This his the offichial 
> vershion.' It's pretty easy to see what's happened - instead of the 'Th' 
> glyph being assigned the text 'Th' and the 'i' glyph the text 'i', the 
> 'Th' is assigned 'T' and 'i' is assigned 'hi'. Thus each subsequent 'i' 
> gets the extra 'h'. Similar things happen with other multi-letter glyphs.

sounds plausible (and annoying).

> I'm happy to take a look at the source for the problem but would really 
> appreciated a helping hand with the architecture so I know what source 
> to look in. I really don't know if this is an issue with libreoffice, 
> with the graphite libraries or even the fonts, so I'm unsure just where 
> to start.

i'm not familiar with PDF export, but the code is mostly in
vcl/source/gdi/pdf*.cxx.

happy hacking,
 michael