Re: Bug#481134: libpoppler does not use cmap files from xpdf-{japanese,...}, and fails to parse Japanese PDF files.
- To: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>, 481134@bugs.debian.org, Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Bug#481134: libpoppler does not use cmap files from xpdf-{japanese,...}, and fails to parse Japanese PDF files.
- From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:18:42 +1000
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:06:40PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> For the long term, I'd recommend either b), or c) if b) isn't possible;
> for lenny, either the long term approach or the d) approach would work,
> but d) would only solve the problem for this particular package.
>
> Because b, c), and d) will almost certainly require changes to
> xpdf-japanese, I'm reassigning the RC counterpart of this bug to this
> package. I'm keeping an important bug open against poppler because it
> can be considered a regression of poppler, but I don't think it should
> be considered RC for poppler because:
> * xpdf-japanese is non-free while poppler is free; perhaps this is a
> fallacy, but I don't think support for a non-free package should
> affect the Debian release; if this is considered >= serious
> severity, it shouldn't be release-blocking
> * it's an upstream design decision that poppler doesn't support xpdf
> config/data and poppler doesn't aim to be compatible with xpdf's
> config/data: xpdf-japanese needs to grow compatibility with poppler
> instead
Patches for xpdf-japanese would be most welcome. I'm not familiar with
the details of fontconfig, defoma etc.
Maybe the relevant data in xpdf-japanese should be moved into
cmap-adobe-japan1 instead. Probably xpdf-japanese's additional CMaps
should move too; I thought I submitted a bug about this years ago but I
don't see it now.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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