[cairo] Font issues in PS and PDF

[Adrian Johnson]

AngryZealot wrote:
> I hope you will forgive my ignorance, but I am having difficulty 
> compiling your patches. I checked out the repository with Git but it 
> does not seem to contain the changes the web viewer shows. I dropped in 
> the files from the web browser into the 1.8.4 source, but this broke the 
> build. Do you have a version that is compatibile with the 1.8.4 release?

You most likely checked out out the master repository instead of my 
repository. From the link I provided if you navigate up to the cgit main 
page of my repo there is a git clone url at the bottom of the page. My 
patches are in the "tag" branch so the commands to check out this branch 
are:

   git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~ajohnson/cairo
   cd cairo
   git checkout tag


> 
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Adrian Johnson <ajohnson at redneon.com 
> <mailto:ajohnson at redneon.com>> wrote:
> 
>     James Cloos wrote:
>      >>>>>> "AZ" == AngryZealot  <angryzealot at gmail.com
>     <mailto:angryzealot at gmail.com>> writes:
>      >
>      > AZ> My project requires PS or PDF output that can be edited in Adobe
>      > AZ> Illustrator. ...
>      >
>      > AZ> A quick look at the ps backend makes me think the issue is
>     with font
>      > AZ> subsetting. The fonts are saved with the name "f-%d-%d" ...
>      > AZ> Illustrator naturally can't find a system font f-0-0, so it
>     converts
>      > AZ> everything to outlines. If I manually edit the postscript file by
>      > AZ> replacing f-0-0 with the appropriate font name, everything works
>      > AZ> beautifully, and Illustrator handles the text just fine.
>      >
>      > Most apps create subset font names by prepending six majuscule ASCII
>      > letters and a plus sign to the original font name, following Adobe's
>      > recomendation in the PDF reference.  I'm sure Illustrator expects
>     that
>      > and would Do The Right Thing were cairo to also use that style.
>      >
>      > The norm is either a random string or some relevant digest
>     (perhaps of
>      > the font's version and the list of glyphs included in the subset).
>      >
>      > There are workflows where avoiding subsetting is required, so a
>     flag for
>      > that is useful.  But it would also be useful to use the normal
>     method of
>      > naming font subsets.
>      >
>      > -JimC
> 
>     I've have written a couple of patches for the PDF backend that prepends
>     the font tag and sets the /FontFamily key to the unmodified font name.
>     If this fixes the problem I can make the Type 1 and OpenType/CFF
>     subsetters also provide the original font name.
> 
>     The patches are at:
> 
>       http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ajohnson/cairo/log/?h=tag
> 
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