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

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimecres, 9 de maig de 2012, a les 11:14:56, suzuki toshiya va escriure:
> 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.

Awesome :-)

Albert

> 
> >> 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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