[poppler] Chinese characters broken

[cobra.yu]

Basically, autohinting should be used on CJKV fonts only(maybe some others apply too), but not on regular ISO-8859-1 or similar encoding systems. Before turning on this function, users should check the encoding system first.

        Cobra
-----Original message-----
From:Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
To:poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
Date:Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:21:23 +0100
Subject:Re: [poppler] Chinese characters broken

A Dilluns, 23 d'agost de 2010, suzuki toshiya va escriure:
> Thanks Cobra.
> 
> To add a few words, setRenderHint() method is for poppler-qt4 binding.
> The insertion of the method should be proposed to Okular maintainer.

Okular maintainer speaking: This is set to false on purpose because lots of 
people came in giving shit that non hinted fonts looked better. One can't make 
everyone happy.

Albert

> 
> I'm not sure similar methods exist in other binding. Evince seems to
> use poppler-glib binding, and its default backend is CairoOutputDev.
> Because Cairo renders the TrueType font internally, so more detailed
> code check is needed.
> 
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
> 
> cobra.yu wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >      The "hinting" issue has been fixed by Freetype 2 w/o patent
> >      troubles, but Poppler doesn't turn on this function by default.
> >      I've used
> > 
> > "doc->setRenderHint(Poppler::Document::TextHinting);" in my application
> > and fixed this problem.
> > 
> >             Cobra
> > 
> > -----Original message-----
> > From:ddreamer<ddreamer at ms93.url.com.tw>
> > To:mpsuzuki<mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
> > Cc:poppler<poppler at lists.freedesktop.org>
> > Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:35:47 +0800 (CST)
> > Subject: Re: [poppler] Chinese characters broken
> > The screenshot1.png is normal result while Screenshot2.png is abnormal
> > result generated by Okular and Evince
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