[poppler] fofi should inspect more indepth part of the font file? (bug#47333)

[suzuki toshiya]

Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dimarts, 8 de maig de 2012, a les 14:45:25, suzuki toshiya va escriure:
>> So I guess poppler is expected to deal with the metric values
>> written in the embedded font file stream. What tools we have now?
>> We have FoFi (thin, and light-weight) or FreeType2 (rich, slower-
>> than FoFi, and sometimes missing).

>> So, it might be possible for FoFi to have a feature to retrieve
>> the metric info from the embedded font file stream. But is it
>> the way to go? Using FreeType2 is easier & safer? I think it
>> is related with the situation "when we make a poppler WITHOUT
>> FreeType2?".

> Personally i'd like it into FoFi unless it's a huge amount of work.

Thank you for comment. I will draft a patch to do it in FoFi,
and ask for the evaluation whether it's maintainable size.

>> BTW, this issue is not 0.19.x-specific. It would be long running
>> issue and shared with XPDF. If I should discuss with XPDF authors,
>> I will do so. Please comment!
> 
> That's up to you, XPDF is a totally separate project, if you are interesting 
> in discussing with them it's you that have to decide that, not us.

OK, I will contact with XPDF maintainers.

> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
>> Regards,
>> mpsuzuki
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