+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
