Re: Searchable PDFs from Graphite fonts

Hi Jonathan,

I have also interested in the fix. I have found a useful closed issue
in this area: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=107254.
Also a relevant post:
http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2007-February/009452.html.
Maybe I can fix the problem with an improved Linux Libertine G and
Biolinum G. I will make a test and give some feedback.

Best regards,
László





2013/3/18 Jonathan Schultz <jonathan@imatix.com>:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm referring this question to the developers' list after getting no useful
> response from the users' list. You can read the original discussion here:
> http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg24955.html
>
> The problem seems to be that in converting from text to glyphs (is that the
> right term?) the PDF converter assigns the wrong text to the glyphs. Thus
> 'This is the official version' becomes 'This his the offichial vershion.'
> It's pretty easy to see what's happened - instead of the 'Th' glyph being
> assigned the text 'Th' and the 'i' glyph the text 'i', the 'Th' is assigned
> 'T' and 'i' is assigned 'hi'. Thus each subsequent 'i' gets the extra 'h'.
> Similar things happen with other multi-letter glyphs.
>
> I'm happy to take a look at the source for the problem but would really
> appreciated a helping hand with the architecture so I know what source to
> look in. I really don't know if this is an issue with libreoffice, with the
> graphite libraries or even the fonts, so I'm unsure just where to start.
>
> Many thanks,
> Jonathan
>
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