[poppler] Form Field Rendering Bugs

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Divendres 01 Febrer 2008, Michael Vrable va escriure:
> I've been very excited to find that poppler has gained support for
> filling in forms; this is excellent work as forms were one of the few
> things that forced me to occasionally use the Adobe Reader.
>
> While testing forms support out, though, I noticed that sometimes text
> wasn't being placed properly, and found that this was already reported
> as bug #12808 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12808).
> I've figured out the cause, and added some comments to the bug report.
>
> I'm currently working on a cleaner patch for the problem (which involves
> decoding UTF-16 strings earlier in the text display routine for forms,
> before computing the width, and I think a few bugfixes in string
> re-encoding functions).
>
> I'm fairly new here.  What is the preferred method for sending patches?
> Should I attach them to the bug report, or should I send them
> (especially preliminary patches, or other bugfixes that I find) to this
> list?

Both way are good enough.

And welcome to poppler coding :-)

Albert

>
> Finally, I've noticed that Iñigo Martínez is currently working on
> annotation support.  Is there any danger of conflicts, given that the
> display of form fields is part of the annotations code (is the
> annotations work expected to be modifying the code for forms)?
>
> --Michael Vrable
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