[poppler] pdf chinese font broken

poppleruser3 poppleruser3 poppleruser3 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 02:21:00 PDT 2012


Hi Mpsuzuki,

I have try to open poppler's Hinting
I have search for the code
and change some flag and bool then compile..
but I still hit the broken problem..
Can you point me out how to modify the source and make Hinting enable...

Thanks

2012/8/29 suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp>

> xpdf enables TrueType hinting by default, but poppler disable
> it by default. There is a long discussion whether TrueType
> hinting should be enabled by default (because some fonts are
> recognized that the unhinted result is better than the hinted
> result), and so please don't request as poppler should enable
> the hinting by default. Of course you can modify the poppler
> source and build your own poppler binary that enables TrueType
> hinting by default.
>
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
>
> poppleruser3 poppleruser3 wrote:
> > Hi Mpsuzuki,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply
> > and I  found a thing
> > the pdf in my attachment that can be open very well in xpdf 3.03(3.02
> still
> > fail)
> > do you know why xpdf open that like a magic...
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > and the font you can direct download from web(maybe search DFFangSong ..)
> >
> > 2012/8/29 suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
> >
> >> Thank you for giving example of yet another font that requires
> >> TrueType hinting for readable result. DFFangSong is not yet
> >> blacklisted in FreeType2 (if you want to see the list, please
> >> check
> >>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/src/truetype/ttobjs.c#n155
> >>
> >>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/src/truetype/ttobjs.c#n256
> )
> >>
> >> I will add it soon, and the next release of FreeType2 2.4.11
> >> will know it by default. How could I get DFFangSong font?
> >>
> >> Also some people may say "the blacklist should be configurable
> >> to avoid the repeated request of the update"; now a public API
> >> to manipulate the internal rasterization parameter is being
> >> discussed among FreeType developers. I will try to the blacklist
> >> configurable via new API, but yet I don't have good candidate
> >> about "which library should manage the blacklist in runtime".
> >> I don't think poppler is the best candidate.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> mpsuzuki
> >>
> >> poppleruser3 poppleruser3 wrote:
> >>> Any one know why poppler can't decode the font  dffangsong-w4-win-bf
> >>> i already install poppler-data-0.4.5 and update freetype to 2.4.10
> >>> but the word still broken..
> >>>
> >>>
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