[poppler] auto switching of TrueType hinter for Type42/Type11 font in PDF

[mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp]

Hi all,

On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:40:11 +0900
mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:34:01 +0100
>Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>>I see in the freetype thread between you and David Bevan that fonts without 
>>name are identified as tricky automatically (or when he says "our code" he 
>>doesn't mean FreeType but some other code), if so, is that enough?

>>As said, i'd prefer freetype doing the job, because it's one centralized 
>>place, if it is not techically possible yeah, then we'll have to do it on 
>>poppler :D
>
>Thanks in advance. Maybe, if next release 2.4.3 enables
>hinting for nameless TrueType, and then, if many people
>complain against the change, I will ask for poppler's
>help.

Just I've committed David Bevan's patch which enables
hinting for nameless fonts in PDFs. If FreeType2 is
updated to the latest revision on GIT head, embedded
MingLiU issues will be fixed, I guess.

I will notice the update of the situation to related
bugs in bugzilla.

Regards,
mpsuzuki