Re: [Podofo-users] [Podofo-svn] SF.net SVN: podofo: [207] podofo/trunk

[Leonard R. <leo...@pd...>]

At 10:50 PM +0800 9/20/06, Craig Ringer wrote:
>In terms of font support on Mac OS X, you might find the font code 
>in Scribus (scribus/scfonts.cpp and friends; look for QT_MAC ) and 
>the code in GhostScript 8.15 (gp_enumerate_fonts in gp_mac.c) to be 
>of interest.

	Good suggestions, thanks!

	My current plan is to simply leverage the Mac font support 
already in FreeType (which I used to be the maintainer of ;).   The 
main issue is getting the build system to build FT with Mac-features 
enabled, since that's not the default for a Unix/makefile build.


>BTW, I've been looking at PoDoFo a bit lately, and I like what I see 
>at this stage. I'm hoping it can be put to use as a low-level PDF 
>output backend for Scribus to replace its current PDF structure 
>handling code, and can be used for PDF parsing and embedding too.

	That would be GREAT!   I think Scribus is a wonderful 
application and that you've folks have made some great progress in 
print publishing applications "for the masses".  Now that the Mac & 
Win builds are coming along better, hopefully the mass increases!


>I was writing my own library - with somewhat* similar goals to 
>PoDoFo - but have discontinued that now that I've seen what you 
>folks have done with PoDoFo in such a short time.

	We appreciate that - and welcome any/all of your own 
contributions.  There are certainly things that Scribus currently 
does for PDF generation that we don't (transparency, Unicode, font 
subsetting & PDF/X, to name a few ;) - but they can all be added. 
I'm already working on a new font engine...


>I'll have a few comments, suggestions and patches for the code to 
>lob your way once I get the time to sort out my notes into a series 
>of coherent and useful items.

	Excellent!


>The main areas I've run into issues in so far have been handling of 
>large objects in memory during document tree assembly and ICC colour 
>support.

	Memory is definitely an issue right now, since we don't 
stream...I haven't given it much thought (don't know about Dom).

	ICC color (and spot colors, etc.) are on my hot list of 
things to tackle - hopefully in the coming weeks...


>Details to come. There are also a few things I can grab from my code 
>and usefully adapt for PoDoFo, so I'll send those your way in a 
>while.

	Looking forward to your contributions.


Leonard
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