[cairo] PDF text rendering problem

[Mindaugas Kavaliauskas]

Hello,


I have a problem with text rendering to pdf (on WinXP). I use simple 
"toy function" cairo_show_text(). IMHO, it is trying to do some 
complicated glyph kerning (or position adjustment) in a buggy way.

Below is the sample indicating the problem. Distances between letters 
"lis" are to large. Spaces between words are to small. Pairs of letters 
"se" are overlapped! "st" is also almost overlapped.

I've uncompressed test1.pdf (using pdftk), and cleared (using simple 
text editor) all glyph position adjustments inside pdf's TJ operator. 
Now text rendering is much much better! So, I think complicated glyph 
position adjustment is buggy. I've tried to hack internals. Glyph 
adjustment is done inside function _cairo_pdf_operators_show_glyphs(), 
see variable delta. But I've failed to understand idea of font subsets 
and fix the problem.

I'm attaching original test1.pdf and uncompressed adjustment-free 
test1u.pdf files. If mailing list does not allow attachments, you'll be 
able to find these files at http://www.dbtopas.lt/download/cairobug


Thank you for support,
Mindaugas


---------- Sample code ----------
cairo_surface_t*      pSurface;
cairo_t*              pCairo;

pSurface = cairo_pdf_surface_create( "test1.pdf", 595, 842 );
pCairo = cairo_create( pSurface );
cairo_set_source_rgb( pCairo, 0, 0, 0 );
cairo_select_font_face( pCairo, "Arial", CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL,
                         CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_NORMAL );
cairo_set_font_size( pCairo, 10 );
cairo_move_to( pCairo, 20, 100 );
cairo_show_text( pCairo, "seconds is list" );
cairo_destroy( pCairo );
cairo_surface_destroy( pSurface );