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Revision: 5294
          http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/matplotlib/?rev=5294&view=rev
Author:   mdboom
Date:     2008-05-28 11:19:30 -0700 (Wed, 28 May 2008)

Log Message:
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Adding CHANGELOG entry and scary comment about what was going wrong.

Modified Paths:
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    branches/v0_91_maint/CHANGELOG
    branches/v0_91_maint/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py

Modified: branches/v0_91_maint/CHANGELOG
===================================================================
--- branches/v0_91_maint/CHANGELOG	2008-05-28 18:13:05 UTC (rev 5293)
+++ branches/v0_91_maint/CHANGELOG	2008-05-28 18:19:30 UTC (rev 5294)
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2008-05-28 Fix crashing of PDFs in xpdf and ghostscript when two-byte
+           characters are used with Type 3 fonts - MGD
+
 2008-05-28 Allow keyword args to configure widget properties as
            requested in
            http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1866207&group_id=80706&atid=560722

Modified: branches/v0_91_maint/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py
===================================================================
--- branches/v0_91_maint/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py	2008-05-28 18:13:05 UTC (rev 5293)
+++ branches/v0_91_maint/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py	2008-05-28 18:19:30 UTC (rev 5294)
@@ -713,6 +713,12 @@
                     charprocDict['Type'] = Name('XObject')
                     charprocDict['Subtype'] = Name('Form')
                     charprocDict['BBox'] = bbox
+                    # Each glyph includes bounding box information,
+                    # but xpdf and ghostscript can't handle it in a
+                    # Form XObject (they segfault!!!), so we remove it
+                    # from the stream here.  It's not needed anyway,
+                    # since the Form XObject includes it in its BBox
+                    # value.
                     stream = stream[stream.find("d1") + 2:]
                 charprocObject = self.reserveObject('charProc')
                 self.beginStream(charprocObject.id, None, charprocDict)


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