RE: [Swftools-common] missing characters in generated swf

[Goldstein, Seth]

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> address@hidden On Behalf Of Matthias
> Kramm
> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 3:20 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] missing characters in generated swf
> 
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:33:02PM -0500, Goldstein, Seth
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'd like to try and lend a hand in fixing this bug.  Any hint on
> where
> > to begin looking?
> 
> The problem is this code in xpdf:
> 
>   if (ff->trueType && gid == 0) {
>     // skip the TrueType notdef glyph
>     return gFalse;
>   }
> 
> Removing that code makes the missing characters work, but I
> do suspect that it will break other files (where glyph 0 is
> used as space even though it contains an outline), so the
> problem to solve here is to know when to safely skip this test.
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 

Interesting.  Seems to me the test is correct, but the fact that a valid
letter is getting a glyph id of 0 would be the bug.  Am I wrong?