[poppler] [PATCH] Interactive forms

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Sat Feb 24 04:34:40 PST 2007


A Dissabte 24 Febrer 2007, vàreu escriure:
> 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

The bug is already fixed on the cvs (that took one night of sleeping for me 
only :-D), you've got to love Scribus developers :-D

We will update the pdf on the okular site with the correct one so your paty to 
GfxFont::matches is no longer needed.

Albert

>
> 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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