[poppler] blocker for poppler-0.6?

[Jeff Muizelaar]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 04:25:01PM +0200, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> 
> 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.

And http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8399 talks about the
possible solution for cairo.

-Jeff