[Swftools-common] Multiple Master Fonts

[Andreas Haufler \(scireum\)]

Hi,

 

we found out that PDFs which do font-substitution by utilizing multiple master fonts are not converted correctly by PDF2SWF. We have a PDF which was designed using Frutiger and contains Adobe Sans MM as replacement. If we throw it into pdf2swf –T 9-f it says “Substituting font Frutiger with Helvetica”.

 

Is that a known problem or should multiple master fonts work?

 

 BTW: Will my patch:

 

Hi everyone,

 

we just recognized, that pdf2swf 0.9.0 doesn’t complain anymore when it substitutes fonts. I made my way through the code and think that in SplashOutputDev.cc:1061 a warning like:

                  msg("<warning> The font: %s is substituted by %s", gfxFont->getName()->getCString(),splashOutSubstFonts[substIdx].name);

 

could be placed. As far as my C knowledge goes, this is where the substitution is computed. It seems to be external code, so hacking around there is probably not too good, but we really need to know if a font is substituted.

 

make its way into the next release? ;-)

 

cheers Andy

 

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