[poppler] blocker for poppler-0.6?

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Diumenge 02 Setembre 2007, Carlos Garcia Campos va escriure:
> El sáb, 01-09-2007 a las 20:48 -0400, Jeff Muizelaar escribió:
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:10:39AM +0200, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> > > El dom, 26-08-2007 a las 22:19 +0200, Albert Astals Cid escribió:
> > > > A Diumenge 26 Agost 2007, Pablo Rodríguez va escriure:
> > > > > Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > > > > A Dissabte 25 Agost 2007, Pablo Rodríguez va escriure:
> > > > > >> There is a bug that has been reported three times and I guess it
> > > > > >> should be a blocker for poppler-0.6.0:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9846
> > > > > >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10401
> > > > > >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11298
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> The bug is that evince displays text only when selecting it.
> > > > > >> This bug seems to be specific to the cairo backend (using
> > > > > >> cairo-1.4.10).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 11298:
> > > > > > gtk-cairo-test, poppler cvs head, kubuntu 7.04: WORKS
> > > > > > gtk-cairo-test, poppler cvs head, kubuntu 7.10: FAILS
> > > > > >
> > > > > > That seems to qualify as NOTOURBUG.
> > > > >
> > > > > Albert, would bug 11298 still qualify as NOTABUG having set the
> > > > > real issue to "poppler-0.5.91 not able to display main text in PDF
> > > > > document"?
> > > >
> > > > The thing is that it works for me on kubuntu 7.04 and fails on 7.10,
> > > > so it would seem there is other library changes that make poppler
> > > > fail, and it should be decided if it's other library or poppler's
> > > > fault.
> > >
> > > Ok, the problem is definitely in freetype. I don't know why it's not
> > > reproducible with splash backend, since it uses freetype too, or am I
> > > wrong?.
> >
> > Cairo blows up if it encounters an error from freetype. Splash deals
> > with the errors more gracefully.
> >
> :-( So, should it be reported to cairo rather than freetype then? I
>
> wonder why freetype >= 2.3.0 returns an error in FT_Load_Glyph while
> freetype < 2.3.0 for the same font works.

I told you on irc some days ago ;-) Some fonts we pass to freetype are 
embedded in the pdf and are not COMPLETE ENOUGH fonts, so freetype decided to 
give up loading them because calling some of the methods would fail/crash. 
AFAIR a KDE developer already reported them and they already fixed it on the 
cvs version, any chance you could give it a try?

>
> I guess there isn't any workaround we can try in poppler, right?

i'd say no

Albert

>
> > -Jeff