[cairo] Fwd: PDF text doesn't render

[Shixin Zeng]

Sorry I forgot a CC and sent it to Baz only. So I'm forwarding it to
this mailing list.

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From: Shixin Zeng <zeng.shixin at gmail.com>
Date: Sep 24, 2007 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [cairo] PDF text doesn't render
To: Baz <brian.ewins at gmail.com>


Hi, Baz

On 9/24/07, Baz <brian.ewins at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24/09/2007, Adam Lichtl <alichtl at bnl.gov> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Attached is the config.log file from my cairo-1.4.10 build.  Running
> > "freetype-config --version" gives 9.3.3.
> >
> > -Adam
> >
>
> Thanks! That is very useful...snipping down to the most interesting bits:
>
> [snip]
> > Package freetype2 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `freetype2.pc'
> > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > No package 'freetype2' found
> > configure:27110: $? = 1
> > Package freetype2 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `freetype2.pc'
> > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > No package 'freetype2' found
> > configure:27138: result: no
> > configure:27140: result: no
> > configure:27162: checking for freetype-config
> > configure:27180: found /usr/X11R6/bin/freetype-config
> > configure:27193: result: /usr/X11R6/bin/freetype-config
> > configure:27205: checking freetype2 libtool version
> > configure:27217: result: 9.3.3 - OK
> [snip]
> > CAIRO_HAS_ATSUI_FONT_FALSE=''
> > CAIRO_HAS_ATSUI_FONT_TRUE='#'
> [snip]
> > CAIRO_HAS_FT_FONT_FALSE='#'
> > CAIRO_HAS_FT_FONT_TRUE=''
>
> So:
> - its not an atsui problem - what I saw is a different bug :(
> - freetype-config reporting 9.3.3 is freetype v 2.1.4 ... released 2003.
> - I was unable to reproduce your bug, but I have freetype 2.3.5 ...
> released 2007.
>
> Right now I'd suspect an old, fixed, freetype bug is causing your
> problem (by causing a failure that triggers the fallback, and so on).
> If that's the case, the bug probably isn't mac-specific and we should
> be able to reproduce it on linux with an equally old freetype? It'd be
> nice if someone tried this. You don't need to have Preview to try it
> out, just run pdffonts on the output of Adam's test program at the
> start of this thread, if you hit the bug it'll show a font called
> Cairo-x-y for some numbers x, y.

On my system, FC4 with freetype2 9.7.3, I got:
$ pdffonts out.pdf
name                                 type         emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- ---------
CairoFont-0-0                        CID Type 0C  yes no  yes     10  0

Hope this helps.
>
> I may have Apple X11 still sitting on one of my macs to try to
> reproduce this myself (freetype's downloads only go back to 2.1.10),
> I'll have a look.
>
> BTW Adrian: my atsui doc that I thought had reproduced the problem
> lists Inconsolata correctly when you run it through pdffonts, so its a
> different bug. I didn't try this with your patches applied yet.
>
> Cheers,
> Baz
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Shixin Zeng


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Shixin Zeng