[cairo] Misplaced glyphs in PDF backend

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Sat Aug 20 06:17:11 PDT 2005


On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 11:38 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 18:26 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > [ Meant to Cc: the list, but forgot. Resent ]
> > 
> > On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 21:56 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> > >   OK, I think I have a real bug here.  Not sure whether it is cairo or
> > > pango bug.  My initial bet is on cairo.
> > 
> > I'd suggest you file this bug in bugs.freedesktop.org, so we don't
> > forget about it. It would, of course, be nicer to have a test case
> > that doesn't use Pango, but failing that, a pangocairo test case
> > would give us something to work with.
> 
>    The test program I used was:
> 
>    http://telecom.inescporto.pt/~gjc/CairoMath/pangocairo-simple.py
> 
> > 
> > Pango doesn't know about any difference between PDF and PNG, so
> > if the output is different, it probably is a PDF backend bug.
> 
>   Thanks.  That was one of my initial doubts.  I wasn't so sure how
> pango and cairo text rendering were related, or whether the bug could be
> in pango.  So, pangocairo just does layout and cairo provides the
> individual glyphs, with respective metrics, I suppose?  In such case, I
> suppose I could trigger this with a cairo-only test program, and I'll
> try to do so soon.

Pango asks for glyph metrics from Cairo, lays out the characters based
on those metrics, then gives the glyphs and metrics to Cairo to 
draw them.

Regards,
							Owen

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