[cairo] PDF text doesn't render

[Shixin Zeng]

Sorry again, I think I misunderstood Baz's email. I should have run
the test program, instead of running pdffonts on the attached out.pdf
in Adam's email. Unfortunately, I don't have libcairo-dev installed on
this system, so I don't think I can help on this. Sorry once more for
the noise.

On 9/24/07, Shixin Zeng <zeng.shixin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry I forgot a CC and sent it to Baz only. So I'm forwarding it to
> this mailing list.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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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> >
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
>
> Shixin Zeng
>
>
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> Best Regards
>
> Shixin Zeng
>


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