Re: [PATCH] Re: [Swftools-common] pdf2swf issue with Font Display on WinCharSetFFFF-H (CID TrueType) fonts

[Irving Popovetsky]

Matthias,

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Matthias Kramm <address@hidden> wrote:

pdf2swf transcodes fonts. It takes the fonts polygons and uses them to
create a FlashType font. As pdf2swf only uses the polygons in a font,
and nothing else, hinting doesn't make any difference- it would only
affect how freetype would create bitmaps from the font, but not the
polygon outlines.
Hence, we don't need hinting, and leaving it turned on actually did
cause problems with fonts that had incorrect hinting information or
broken bytecode.

The hinting change has definitely made a huge difference for me,  two of the most commonly used Traditional Chinese fonts were unreadable before,  and made perfect by removing FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING.    Those fonts were definitely outline based (see FontForge/font2swf screenshots earlier in thread:  http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/swftools-common/2010-10/msg00063.html ).   

I can send you an example PDF if you're interested.

Thanks,

-Irving