[cairo] Two problems with Type 1 fonts
Adrian Johnson
ajohnson at redneon.com
Tue Jan 8 07:56:09 PST 2008
Elmar Braun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two (possibly related) problems with Type 1 fonts. I'm using
> Cairo 1.4.12 on Windows.
>
> The first problem is that text output to any surface other than a
> Win32 surface is completely garbled. For example, when I use a Type 1
> font to write the string "Type" to a PDF-, SVG- or image surface, the
> surface will show the string "5ZQF".
>
> The second issue is that cairo_scaled_font_glyph_extents() doesn't
> seem to work correctly with Type 1 fonts. When I rely on the results
> of that function to draw glyphs with cairo_show_glyphs(), the glyph
> positions are skewed. I think this may be related to the first
> problem, because the glyph positions seem to be correct for the
> garbled glyphs that are emitted on non-screen surfaces.
I've have committed a fix for this problem both these problems
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=47bebc8f1d0b6524f8d1eff1fa3f981f1e4c4c33
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