[poppler] auto switching of TrueType hinter for Type42/Type11 font in PDF

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Tue Aug 31 14:23:47 PDT 2010


A Dissabte, 28 d'agost de 2010, mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp va escriure:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:40:11 +0900
> 
> mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp wrote:
> >On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:34:01 +0100
> >
> >Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> >>I see in the freetype thread between you and David Bevan that fonts
> >>without name are identified as tricky automatically (or when he says
> >>"our code" he doesn't mean FreeType but some other code), if so, is that
> >>enough?
> >>
> >>As said, i'd prefer freetype doing the job, because it's one centralized
> >>place, if it is not techically possible yeah, then we'll have to do it on
> >>poppler :D
> >
> >Thanks in advance. Maybe, if next release 2.4.3 enables
> >hinting for nameless TrueType, and then, if many people
> >complain against the change, I will ask for poppler's
> >help.
> 
> Just I've committed David Bevan's patch which enables
> hinting for nameless fonts in PDFs. If FreeType2 is
> updated to the latest revision on GIT head, embedded
> MingLiU issues will be fixed, I guess.
> 
> I will notice the update of the situation to related
> bugs in bugzilla.

Thanks for your work in this front :-)

Albert

> 
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki


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