[poppler] Annotation interoperability

[Adam Reichold]

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Hello,

On 05.10.2012 20:17, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dijous, 4 d'octubre de 2012, a les 08:11:16, Adam Reichold va
> escriure: Hello,
> 
> On 04.10.2012 01:00, Fabio D'Urso wrote:
>>>>> Maybe it is sensible to enforce one way of cropping in the
>>>>> Qt4 frontend of Poppler? Not sure about this though.
>>>> 
>>>> It seems to me that it's poppler rendering it incorrectly:
>>>> 
>>>> 1) The attached document is rendered in a completely
>>>> different way
>>>> 
>>>> than in acroread: we show the icon bottom-left, acroread
>>>> shows it
>>>> 
>>>> top-left.
>>>> 
>>>> 2) Also, in acroread the icon always has the same size, while
>>>> in poppler it scales according to the current zoom level.
>>>> 
>>>> I guess fixing #1 should be fairly straightforward and I'll
>>>> work on it tomorrow, about #2 there's some extra work to do.
> 
> I think, at least for me, changing #2 would break application 
> behaviour: I currently try to avoid the problem by cropping the 
> boundary selected by the user to 24x24 at 72dpi and transform it in
> the same way as the page itself so that it matches the icon size.
> (Which I thought was implied by giving it in normalized
> coordinates.)
> 
> If Poppler decides to (not) scale it like acroread, the effective 
> boundary at any scale factor and hence the transformation to be 
> applied would become different and also specific to fixed-size 
> icon-like annotations.
> 
> Not that is isn't possible, it would just introduce new behaviour
> and hence necessarily new code on the application level.
> 
>> Sure, but the thing is, if the current behaviour is wrong, it has
>> to be fixed and apps adapted, we can't live forever with
>> workarounds in the wrong place.

Yes, I agree. As I understand it, the way I currently do it may be
correct for the implementation but not for the standard. So the
implementation has to change and hence my application's dependent
behaviour.

It would be nice if Poppler's behaviour changed only at some
well-defined point in time like the release of version 0.22.

So I'll probably start to respect the FixedSize and FixedRotation
flags beginning with Poppler 0.22? (Meaning text annotations will
really be 24px times 24px from the top left corner of the boundary no
matter what resolution I pass to Poppler::Page::renderToImage?)

Best regards, Adam.

>> Cheers, Albert
> 
> 
> Best regards, Adam.
> 
> P.S.: Obviously, I am not respecting the FixedSize or
> FixedRotation flags. Does Poppler? Maybe those could be use to
> convey the scaling that is done internally?
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