Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2010-01-06 16:38-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote:
> 
>> Hazen Babcock wrote:
>>> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>>>> The rest of this is addressed to Hazen who is the principal developer for
>>>> the cairo device driver.  Please verify for yourself the superscript issue
>>>> for -saveD results for -dev xcairo. Also, if you think it will take a 
>>>> while
>>>> to fix this issue, let me know, and I will put it in the bug tracker.
>>> I'd almost forgotten about this issue. It will take me a while so I'd put 
>>> it in the tracker. As we discussed in the past it is most likely related to 
>>> the cairo drivers using the new text rendering path instead of the old. 
>>> Perhaps it is some sort of memory corruption issue, however, I really don't 
>>> understand how this could specifically strip the text formatting without 
>>> otherwise corrupting the string.
>> Hopefully I've managed to fix this in v10738.
> 
> Thanks for this.  The PostScript save result with xcairo certainly looks
> good here so I think you should go ahead and close bug 2926482.
> 
> I noticed your changes nicely separated out the code for the
> plsc->alt_unicode true case into its own independent loop in plP_text
> starting at line 889 of plcore.c. However, as a matter of efficiency can't
> all/most of the code in the remaining loop in plP_text starting at line 653
> of plcore.c be skipped when plsc->alt_unicode is true?

Unfortunately not if we want the postscript save feature to work.

-Hazen


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