+1 for releasing as is and fixing afterwards

Maruan Sahyoun

Am 22.03.2013 um 15:00 schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler <andr...@lehmi.de>:

> Hi,
> 
> Am 22.03.2013 14:40, schrieb Wolfgang Glas:
>> Am 22.03.13 14:29, schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Am 22.03.2013 13:56, schrieb Wolfgang Glas:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>>    Andreas has kindly integrated my TTFSubFont class into pdfbox-1.8.0.
>>> I just started the integration. We are far away from the end.
>>> Thanks again for sharing the code with us.
>>> 
>>>> However, we are experiencing crashes of Minolta printers, which stumble
>>>> across some subtle Problems in the extracted TTF fonts generated by this
>>>> class. Most notably, the font checksum is calculated to an invalid value
>>>> among other more subtle issues.
>>> Is this because I integrated some of your stuff or because of how I
>>> integrated
>>> your stuff?
>> 
>> It has nothing to do with the way you are intergrating the code. These
>> are all TTF-related misunderstandings I introduced myself.
> Sounds like my own experience, this font stuff is hard to understand if it
> comes to the details. :-(
> 
>> The problem is, that Minolta Printer are less tolerant on TTF problems
>> than all PDF viewer I've tested so far.
> OK, I see
> 
>>> Do you think it is a blocker for all or just for you? Maybe we should
>>> release
>>> 1.8.0 as is and do another bugfix release in a couple of weeks?
>> 
>> It is a blocker for all users of TTFSubFont, because their users will cheat
>> them on breaking their Minolta printers like I've been cheated by my
>> customer.
>> I have a fix in my original code, which is build atop of pdfbox-1.7.1. I
>> have not switched over to 1.8.0 so far, but surely I'd love to see a
>> pdfbox-1.8.0 with working TTSubFont class.
> I tend to release 1.8.0 anyway as people are waiting for the new version and
> now that it is almost done I'm afraid some of them will become impatient if
> we stop it at this point. Furthermore I don't want to put some additional
> pressure on you to deliver a fix for that issue. Once your fix is available I
> can cut a new bugfix release. Maybe some other changes will be available too.
> WDYT?
> 
>>   Wolfgang
> 
> BR
> Andreas Lehmkühler

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