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

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 26 de març de 2012, a les 20:30:35, Thomas Freitag va escriure:
> 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.

You can reproduce the problem. Have a look at your files and see that bug-
poppler28632-spash-patch-1.png has much fewer characters than bug-
poppler28632-spash-head.1.png (e.g. first column, last row, the 'a' is 
missing)

Albert

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