[poppler] Preventing missalignment of 'misused' enumeration chars

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dijous, 21 de juny de 2012, a les 11:33:51, Stefan de Konink va escriure:
> Hi,

Hi

> Using pdftotext with -layout we see a problem that when enumeration chars
> are used in tables to make pretty think dots, these chars end up at the
> beginning of the line as '*'
> 
> Like:
> 
>    1.1 * Bla bla bla;
> 
> 
> Instead of:
> 
>    1.1 Bla bla bla      *
> 
> 
> When another character is used in the pdf which also looks like a thick
> dot, but is transformed to the letter 'l' it is positioned at the right
> place.
> 
> 
> Could anyone give a hint where in TextOutputDev.cc the 'enumerations' or
> left alignment is arranged? I have attached a pdf document that fails.

Sorry, No idea :-(

You might want to file a bug so it does get written down somewhere that this 
fails.

It'd be awesome if you could try to have a look at fixing it yourself.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 
> Stefan