[poppler] xpdf-poppler

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dijous, 23 d'abril de 2009, Petr Gajdos va escriure:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to switch from xpdf's own backend to poppler thanks genstef
>
>    http://gentooexperimental.org/~genstef/dist/
>
> Unfortunately, the result is deficient rendering fonts. The difference
> become more obvious when you zoom out the document. I went trough patches
> we had pointing into xpdf's Splash  and I found no-hinting.patch. It helps
> a lot, see difference.jpg (100% zoom in xpdf).
>
> But the content of this patch basically says that both branches of #ifdef
> do the same, so it sounds more like workaround than like a solution.
>
> Unfortunately I don't understand xpdf/poppler/splash well so far, therefore
> I am asking for help with this here. What's the better solution?

You mean that xpdf gives a different result than xpdf using poppler? Quite 
strange since it's mostly the same code.

BTW please next time don't send a JPG with text, looks awful.

Albert

>
> Petr