[poppler] [PATCH] Interactive forms

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Fri Feb 23 16:31:48 PST 2007


A Divendres 23 Febrer 2007, Julien Rebetez va escriure:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 20:30 +0100, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > Well, i had a quick look, not that i don't know anything of the PDF
> > format by memory, but anyway your patch looks quite unintrusive in what
> > we had until now (except the GfxFont::matches change, or is that a
> > bugfix?) so
>
> For the GfxFont::matches part, I modified it because I had some problem
> (during appearance rendering) with a scribus-generated PDF file [1],
> which was reporting a lot " Error: Unknown font tag 'Helvetica' ".
> I found that adding a comparison against the font's name fixed it, but
> I'm not sure if this bug comes from poppler or from the file.
>
> Perhaps someone more familiar with poppler's font handling could say
> where the problem is ?

I had a look, it's a problem on scribus. I filed bug 
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=5385

Hopefully 1.3.3.8 is around the corner and devs toldme they'll try to fix it 
for that release so we had a good timing it seems :D

Albert

> > i think
> > that if you agree and noone disagrees i'll commit this on this weekend so
> > it's easier to test than having to apply a patch.
>
> Of course I agree :-)
>
> Regards,
> Julien
>
> [1] http://www.okular.org/stuff/forms-scribus.pdffrom , created by
> pinotree to test form




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