[poppler] Arthur Backend

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 3 de juny de 2013, a les 20:05:13, mihai Niculescu va escriure:
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jun 3, 2013, at 19:56, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > El Dilluns, 3 de juny de 2013, a les 19:49:13, mihai Niculescu va 
escriure:
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >> 
> >> On Jun 3, 2013, at 19:38, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> >>> El Dilluns, 3 de juny de 2013, a les 09:41:41, Mihai Niculescu va
> > 
> > escriure:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> Hi!
> >>> 
> >>>> I am working on Arthur backend and did some changes for the backend not
> >>>> to use Splash, but only Qt and QPainter.
> >>>> Right now, the backend can render very good PDF files with the
> >>>> exceptions:
> >>>> - does not render non-latin characters
> >>>> - does not render multiple resolutions
> >>> 
> >>> How are you fixing the embedded font problem?
> >> 
> >> The embedded fonts are read from file using the GfxFont. I only have a
> >> problem with CID font with which I didn't advance enough- this is why
> >> I cannot make it display CJK. Mostly, the code is similar with
> >> SplashOutputDev and Cairo.
> > 
> > Ok, let me remake my question, how are you using QPainter to draw a QFont
> > that represents a font that is embedded in the pdf file? Or you're not
> > using QFont?
> With QRawFont painter.drawRunGlyphs(...)

OMG, hell has frozen over! They finally made this public, awesome :-)

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> >>>> These are the only problems I found. Are you interested in these
> >>>> changes
> >>>> and how can I add these to git repo?
> >>> 
> >>> Send patches, either here or to bugzilla (but *not* to both)
> >> 
> >> I'll replay with another email containing the patch.
> >> 
> >>>> Also, I am thinking of modifying the wrapper to also support Qt5 but I
> >>>> dont know how to  modify the build system (configure, makefiles) to
> >>>> search for Qt5/Qt4, set libraries and moc accordingly and to set a
> >>>> global variable to use it in the code in order to know which code to
> >>>> enable: #ifdef QT5_VERSION
> >>> 
> >>> No, create a qt5 folder, don't fill the place with ifdefs, we did that
> >>> with
> >>> qt3 and qt4 back in the time and it was a mess.
> >> 
> >> Ok.
> > 
> > Someone just said in the irc channel he almost has this finished, so you
> > may want to hold up a bit here (or sync with him)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >  Albert
> >  
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> 
> >>> Albert
> >>> 
> >>>> or something like this. If someone can help me with this, than I'll
> >>>> make
> >>>> poppler-qt4 support even Qt5.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Mihai
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