[poppler] Some patches WAS Re: Poppler 0.19.1 (0.20 Beta 1) released

[Thomas Freitag]

Am 26.03.2012 19:47, schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> El Diumenge, 25 de març de 2012, a les 22:34:20, Thomas Freitag va escriure:
>> Am 19.03.2012 08:05, schrieb Thomas Freitag:
>>> Am 16.03.2012 16:08, schrieb Carlos Garcia Campos:
>>>> Excerpts from Albert Astals Cid's message of jue mar 15 22:23:15 +0100
> 2012:
>>>>> Available from
>>>>> http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.19.1.tar.gz
>>>>>
>>>>> WARNING: This is a unstable release, it is actually 0.20 Beta 1 release,
>>>>> it
>>>>> should work like any release from the 0.18 branch, but do not blame us
>>>>> if it turns your cat into a lion and eats your breakfast.
>>>>>
>>>>> Changes against the 0.19.0 branch:
>>>>>
>>>>> core:
>>>>>    * Improve CJK suport in PSOutputDev
>>>>>    * CJK substitute implementation on WIndows platforms
>>>>>    * Do not crash on malformed files with 0 bits in the color map of an
>>>>>    image
>>>>>    * Fix regression in some PSOutputDev array sizing
>>>>>    * Improvements to Annotation editing
>>>>>    * Fix logic error in Rendition parsing code (Bug #47063)
>>>>>    * Minor API changes to SplashOutputDev (Bug #46622)
>>>>>    * Fix mismatch in some functions declarations
>>>>>    * Update poppler copyright year
>>>>>
>>>>> utils:
>>>>>    * pdftops: Fix -passfonts regression. (Bug #46744)
>>>>>    * pdffonts: List the encoding of each font. (Bug #46888)
>>>>>    * pdftohtml: Add possibilty of controlling word breaks percentage.
>>>>>    (Bug #47022)>>>
>>>>> qt4:
>>>>>    * Support for LinkMovie object (Bug #40561)
>>>>>    * Support for Media Rendition
>>>>>
>>>>> glib:
>>>>>    * Add poppler_fonts_iter_get_encoding
>>>>>    * Improvements to the demo
>>>>>
>>>>> Testing, patches and bug reports welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> My TODO list is:
>>>>>    * Work with Fabio in his Annot Qt4 patches
>>>>>    * Decide something with Adrian in the "Pdf that uses the symbol font"
>>>>>    thread * Review 47186 pdftohtml: mask images are not extracted,
>>>>>    unless they are JPEG * Review 32340 pdftohtml: renders images
>>>>>    vertically flipped
>>>>>
>>>>> Remember feature freeze is in 2 weeks with Beta 2
>>>>>
>>>>> If anyone has anything else that thinks it is waiting on me for further
>>>>> feedback, tellme, because it's not on my list
>>>> The xpdf303 merge introduced some regressions in the cairo backend,
>>>> I'll try to find some time this weekend to send more details to the list.
>> I just finished the patch for these regressions, they had differents reasons
>> 1. In CharCodeToUnicode::mapToUnicode the identity support was missing 2.
>> The new algorithms for axial and radial shading caused problems in cairo. I
>> revert these changes but removed the examination of hidden content (this is
>> already done in the calling function)
>> 3. The examination of optional hidden content in showing text was wrong:
>> of course hidden text should not be shown, but text parameters like text
>> position in the state must be changed!
>> 4. Searching and finding fonts especially with base14 fonts should be
>> more exact than just looking at the base14 name (i.e. fixed width and so
>> on) when using fontconfig. I implement that to find the best font
>> fitting to the needs.
> Don't know which of them but applying it makes me lose half of the letter in
> bug-poppler28632.pdf
Can You explain it a little bit more? I saw especially this one as on 
enhancement. I send You in private (it's nearal 1 MByte) the output with 
cairo and splash with this patch, the ouptput with splash with the head 
revisiion and the ouput with r92ce79.

Thomas
>
> Can you please have a look?
>
> Albert
>
>> Cheers,
>> Thomas
>>
>>>>> Albert
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
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