On 7/18/2014 1:35 PM, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 17.07.2014, 20:57 -0400 schrieb James Cloos:A patch has at least been proposed for poppler to treat glyph names like /f_i as equivilent to names like /fi, at least for the f-ligs found in the standard pdf font encodings for the base14 fonts.I am still convinced (and as far as I understand it seems that at least Karl Berry agrees in that regard) that the most portable solution would be to include duplicates of the two "fl/f_l" and "fi/f_i" glyphs that are part of the MacRoman character set in the fonts - in addition to and independent of the fixes in poppler.
of course that will then fail again when someone drops in another times replacement that doesn't have the /ff
if dropping in otf files for type 1 ones is considered a valid solution, then poppler should do more checking anyway for the few f related ligatures (which makes me wonder why the otf file is used as drop-in)
(apart from potential issues in one-to-one slot-to-name mapping resolvers in other programs that now can get confused when ff overloads f_f)
Hans
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