Re: [patch] Rework of Pango integration

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 09:24:26PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 20:54, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> >  * I'd consider this patch "done" other than review comments; 
> >    it's reasonably well documented and commented and should
> >    be pretty much complete. The one thing I can think of that
> >    needs fixing is:
> > 
> >     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114431
> > 
> >    But that mostly comes up for menu-style partial-word underlines.
> 
> Oh yeah, the other thing I should mention is that PDF output is
> pretty much not-working for anything beyond English with this
> patch.
> 
> That's nothing new; the text output code in the PDF backend is pretty
> much a hack and this just makes it obvious.
> 
> I don't think it should be very hard to get the PDF backend doing
> a better job at producing PDF files that display correctly. Getting
> it to produce files that can be cut-and-paste or screen-read is
> definitely more of a challenge.

The Sun folk have produced an improved variant of their initial
patch and merged it with the PS backend.  It will go in later this
week when a few details are ironed out.  That should help this
situation.