[NTG-pdftex] [Dev-luatex] Fwd: [poppler] [PATCH] Fixup LaTeX composed characters

[Hans Hagen]

On 25-3-2011 2:40, Martin Schröder wrote:
> FYI.
> Don't ask me what's the problem with our PDF seems to be...

indeed.

if we even consider this for luatex, it should be an option that is not 
applied by default ... tweaking an included pdf file should never happen 
automatically as overlapping can be intentional ...

personally I think that this is more something to plug into (for 
instance) qpdf i.e. repair the problematic file using independent tools

(actually, if it is added to pdftex one could use pdftex to copy the 
document into a another one that then gets the latex accents corrected)

Hans


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tim Brody<tdb2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Date: 2011/3/25
> Subject: [poppler] [PATCH] Fixup LaTeX composed characters
> To: poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Attached is a patch to address the previous problem I wrote about with
> pdflatex-produced PDFs that contain overlapping-diacritics/accents.
>
> This patch contains:
>   - a table of diacritic to Unicode combining character code-points
>   - if an overlapping character is detected checks whether the first (in
> stream-sequence) character is in the table
>   - pops the diacritic off the word
>   - appends the diacritic to the character as a Unicode combining character
>
> This does not fix \b{o} or \d{o} because TeX places them on the next line
> (so aren't detected as overlapping).
>
> Yes, this is an issue with pdflatex but there are 100,000s of TeX-produced
> PDFs for which we don't have source for ...


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