[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 102290] [PATCH] Replace Splash font rendering by Qt font rendering

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Tue Aug 22 21:07:10 UTC 2017


https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102290

--- Comment #7 from Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> ---
(In reply to oliver.sander from comment #6)
> It's a CID font, and right now I don't know how to handle that.
> 
> Seems like I'm not the only one.  Quoting Mihai from
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2013-June/010338.html :
> 
> "I only have a problem with CID font with which I didn't advance enough-
> this is why I cannot make it display CJK."
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> In the worst case I could make the code fall back to the Splash font
> renderer for all CID fonts.  Would that be acceptable?

That kind of defeats the point of not using Splash anymore?

> BTW: My life would be much simpler if I knew what the parameters of the
> drawChar method are.  Right now I operate mainly by educated guesswork. 
> Could somebody please take the time and write down descriptions of what they
> are?  I'll gladly prepare a patch from any kind of description.  Thanks!

There's exactly one call to drawChar in Gfx.cc i hope you'll be able to kind of
reverse-engineer the params from there. I would have to reverse-engineer it too
at this point, kind of forgot all i knew of it.

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