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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Kpdf inclusion
From:       Christophe Devriese <oelewapperke () ulyssis ! org>
Date:       2003-08-22 13:17:56
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On Friday 22 August 2003 08:26, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 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 ?
>
> Please disregard previous message (for now at least).
>
> I updated and built from: "kdenonbeta".  Is that the correct version?  If
> not, please tell me where to look.
>
> So, it built fine and I installed it in KDE 3.1.3+ using Qt-3.1.2.
>
> I opened a PDF that uses Times and Helvetica -- the standard fonts for PDFs
> -- which are NOT embedded.  It doesn't look very good.  The Helvetica looks
> good, but the Times is not Times but rather appears to be incorrectly
> spaced Helvetica.
>
> So, first job is to get the fonts to work.
>
> Could you give me a road map as to how it finds fonts?  Which source files,
> etc.?  And, how does it do this?  Is this another problem with Qt using the
> wrong names for fonts? :-(
>
> A NOTE: I found this comment in: GfxFont.cc
>
>      // this is technically an error -- the Widths entry is required
>      // for all but the Base-14 fonts -- but certain PDF generators
>      // apparently don't include widths for Arial and TimesNewRoman
>
> If it is: ArialMT and TimesNewRomanPSMT (which are Type1 fonts NOT
> TrueType), this is not really an error since these fonts are supposed to
> have exactly the same widths as Helvetica and Times (respectively).  The
> new versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader have them in place of Helvetica and
> Times (which came with version 3.x).
>
> --
> JRT

Dammit you are thorough ;-p. The font mapping is xpdf code I think though. 
I'll defineately look into it though.

You wouldn't happen to have the pdf you showed me here anywhere ?

 
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