Re: request for xpdf font->getUnicode

[Michal H. <ms...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:21:33PM +0200, Jozef Misutka wrote:
> when adding/replacing text in a pdfoperator which uses font with unicode  
> mapping we do not map characters back to the original encoding.
> 
> example:
> 
> text operator with
> "!@#" which is according to unicode mapping displayed as "123"
> but if we add/replace with character 'c'
> "!@#c" we do NOT get what expected! the CharCode 'c' (=0x63) will be  
> mapped to something unpredictable.
> 
> 2michal: can you add a function which will return the number used by this  
> font to map it to c so we can use it in the rewrite function?

This is on my long term TODO list.
When I did the operators cleanup back in September last year this didn't
get in due to the lack of time.
https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=20080908220716.057622337%40gmail.com

I have committed the patchset with this:
https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20081029151610.GD5425%40dhcp35.suse.cz

Unfortunately, I cannot tell when I get to this. I am afraid that this
will enforce some changes to the xpdf code because currently it is
enc->char oriented.

> 
> 
> thx,
> jozef
> 
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