[cairo] ask for advice about cairo's user_font

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 07/22/2009 03:16 PM, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 09:33 +0800, flk1986 wrote:
>> Hi :)
>>    I am a newcomer in cairo.Now I have a problem ,I write this mail in
>> order to get your help.
>
> Hi there,
>
> Thanks for raising this issue.
>
>> My trouble is :
>> I am using the "cairo's user_font" print  datas to pdf.
>>   For example,I print "geez... cairo user-font" to pdf(my.pdf),
>> in "my.pdf" you will see "geez... cairo user-font",
>> but if you copy these datas to "my.txt",
>> you will get "??eez... cairo user-font" ,the first character is lost
>> (couldn't get right uft-8 code).
>
> I've replicated this problem using the user-font test case in cairo's
> test suite. I did that as follows:
>
> 	cd cairo/test
> 	make cairo-test-suite
> 	CAIRO_TEST_TARGET=pdf ./cairo-test-suite user-font
> 	evince output/user-font.pdf.argb32.out.pdf
>
> Then I selected the first line of text and pasted into emacs running in
> gnome-terminal. What I got was:
>
> 	0eez... cairo user-font
>
> instead of:
>
> 	geez... cairo-user-font
>
> (That's actually an ASCII '0' instead of an ASCII 'g'.)
>
> Does anyone with more knowledge of cairo's PDF backend and the user-font
> support want to look closer to see if this is a bug in cairo, the test,
> evince or elsewhere? Behdad? Adrian?

Falls into Adrian's territory.  That's why I didn't reply before.

Cheers,
behdad


> Thanks again for the report,
>
> -Carl