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Bug 404 : fonts look misshapen on mac os x with pdf, may be cubic vs quadric spline issue
Last modified: 2008-08-16 13:46
P
roject:
processing
trash
Version:
unspecified
Co
m
ponent:
android
book
core
libraries
pde
reference
tools
web
Status:
RESOLVED
Resolution:
WONTFIX -
Pr
i
ority:
P2
Severity:
normal
Platform
All
O
S:
All
Windows
Mac OS
Linux
Other
Reporter:
fry
Assigned To:
fry
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Description
: Opened: 2006-10-01 14:20
The shape of the characters may be weird in some cases,
there seems to be a Java bug with cubic vs. quadric splines.
This bug may be specific to Mac OS X.
This is not the same as fonts looking pixelated and blocky, see the PDF
reference for that issue.
Additional Comment
#1 From fry 2006-12-05 20:20
this bug may also be specific to opentype fonts, which are parsed as
truetype fonts, so java gets confused when they contain cff-encoded quad data.
Additional Comment
#2 From fry 2006-12-05 20:39
confirmed that converting an adobe opentype font (rosewood std, presumably
cff format) to ttf (using fontforge) makes things work again; also that the
original font was only reporting cubicto (along with moveto/lineto) as an
operator in the font.
the shapeiterator that takes a parameter for the degree of accuracy doesn't
fix the issue (seems to exacerbate it, though this may be an issue of font
size).
Additional Comment
#3 From fry 2008-08-16 13:46
Fixed in an Apple update to Java 1.5 for Mac OS X 10.4.