fop-pdf-image and fonts; as requested

2012-02-28 Thread Craig Ringer
Hi As requsted by Mehdi Houshmand I'm elaborating on the issue we've been running into with fop-pdf-image. I've asked about aspects of it on the list before, but now have a better understanding of what's going on. Where input pdfs being used as form XObjects contain embedded subset fonts, I'm see

Re: Bugzilla #46962 - Deadlock in PropertyCache

2012-02-28 Thread Alexios Giotis
Thank you all for your replies. I just printed and will send the ICLA anyway so that it will not be an impediment for applying this or future patches. @Vincent I will be happy to make any clarification related to the patch. But it would be transparent if there is a comment on the issue or an em

Re: Bugzilla #46962 - Deadlock in PropertyCache

2012-02-28 Thread Glenn Adams
benson, thanks for that clarification, i see in [1] that though an ICLA is not required of a contributor, it is nevertheless desirable to have one submitted; so, Alexios, if you wish to submit an ICLA please do so; however, given the limited scope of the patch, I would agree that it is not strictly

Re: Bugzilla #46962 - Deadlock in PropertyCache

2012-02-28 Thread mehdi houshmand
Hi Guys, My apologies for the lack of transparency on this issue, but I didn't actually review the changes you made here, in fact, I barely looked at what PropertyCache actually does. I had some free time, and added a bunch of unit tests. The reason this hasn't been committed yet was because Vinc

Re: Bugzilla #46962 - Deadlock in PropertyCache

2012-02-28 Thread Benson Margulies
an icla is not required for a patch attached to a bz unless it is of unusual size or not coded be the bz submitter. On Feb 28, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Glenn Adams wrote: I support committing this patch, however I don't see an ICLA listed at [1] for Alexios. Alexios, if you have not submitted an ICLA

Re: Bugzilla #46962 - Deadlock in PropertyCache

2012-02-28 Thread Glenn Adams
I support committing this patch, however I don't see an ICLA listed at [1] for Alexios. Alexios, if you have not submitted an ICLA [2], please do so. I would be happy to apply the patch (if Mehdi doesn't have the time). [1] http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html#unlistedclas [2] http://www

Re: Implementing PDF Object Streams

2012-02-28 Thread mehdi houshmand
Hi Craig, Just out of curiosity, what issues are you having with the pdf-image-plugin? I spent quite a lot of time with it and submitted a patch to Jeremias (not sure if he's committed it). Maybe we could help you there? We've also got some commits lying around that we're not happy with per-se bec

Re: update to site/deploy/fop

2012-02-28 Thread Clay Leeds
Nice work troubleshooting the file date problem. I have had many problems w site deployment since long ago when I first brought the site to more or less it's current state of Forrest-y crunchiness. I'm currently spending some time researching the method for converting to the newly blessed meth

Bugzilla #46962 - Deadlock in PropertyCache

2012-02-28 Thread Alexios Giotis
Hi, About 6 months ago, I had a deadlock issue that regularly stopped production servers. While I was opening a bugzilla ticket, I found that this was already reported back in 2009. This issue is still opened as it was difficult to reproduce. On that issue, I added: [1] An explanation of why a

new Temp_CFF branch

2012-02-28 Thread Glenn Adams
I have created a new branch Temp_CFF [1], in order to add support for Adobe CFF (Compact Font Format) encoded OpenType/TrueType fonts. CFF encoded fonts use a different format, more compact representation for glyph outline data [2][3]; specifically, they use Adobe Type 2 charstring format [4]. [1]