From kde-devel Fri Aug 22 04:12:16 2003 From: James Richard Tyrer Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 04:12:16 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Kpdf inclusion X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=106152943123177 Christophe Devriese wrote: > the new version of xpdf is now included in kpdf, a number of extra features > are coming (text selection and copying comes to mind). > In short I'm asking : what will happen to it now ? IIUC, one of the things which is missing is the ability to deal with fonts which are not embedded and which the user does not have on his system. The way which Adobe Acrobat reader deals with these is that if first determines if the fonts are serif or sans serif. It comes with two multi-master fonts (one serif and one sans serif) and then makes a font with the same font metrics (single axis width only I think [bold and italic can be simulated the usual way]) as the missing font. OTOH, if it is a specialty font that is missing, I have no idea what happens. I'll build the current version and see how it works. -- JRT >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<