[cairo] cairo-pdf glyph positioning bug with librsvg
Behdad Esfahbod
behdad at behdad.org
Thu Feb 21 17:42:39 PST 2008
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 09:24 +0100, Emmanuel Pacaud wrote:
> Le dimanche 17 février 2008 à 20:32 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit :
> > Ok, I've got a patch that mostly fixes this now. The bug was simple:
> > librsvg's Pango use was a mess.
>
> Text rendering is the weakest part of librsvg (which is not surprising
> since it's also the hardest part to implement...).
Fully implementing all the attributes and features, yes, it's indeed
complicated.
> > - librsvg also was using the ink extents in some places where logical
> > extents should be used. Fixed in the patch.
>
> That's something I'm interrested in. I'm currently implementing a
> pango/cairo based mathml renderer, and I'm not really confident in my
> use of the pango API. I guess I've not fully understood the difference
> between logical and ink extents, and how to use them when you have to
> manually position several pango layout in a single row. The pango
> documentation lacks some explanation regarding extents.
I've wanted to fix the docs for a while, here is where to follow:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347009
In short, think of ink extents as cairo path extents, the tight bounding
box of all the ink involved. Logical extents on the other hand are the
logical boundary. A space character for example has 0,0,0,0 ink rect,
but its logical extents have a width of a single space, and the
ascent/decent of the current font. Hope that helps.
Re MathML rendering, I'm interested to hear more about it. There's this
new OpenType MATH table that should help with positioning. I have plans
to include that in HarfBuzz at some point. Having a user lined up
helps :). Gecko uses pango to render MathML already, and I think there
a GTK+ widget floating around the net too. I'm sure you know about
those.
> Emmanuel.
Cheers,
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