[Lazarus] PDF generator: please test

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Sun Apr 10 11:03:09 CEST 2016



On Sun, 10 Apr 2016, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On 2016-04-10 08:15, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> Wow, let me interfere here before we go in a wrong direction:
>>
>> The public API should not depend on the selected font.
>
> I know. The current implementation gravitated towards the situation we
> have now, but that is definitely not how it is going to end up. Like I
> mentioned in one of my earlier replies, we will end up with overloaded
> WriteText() calls only, and internally the fpPDF code will sort out what
> font code to generate. Up to now, one of my high priority was figuring
> out font embedding and handling of ASCII and Unicode text - this task
> seems complete (except for the Unicode range above BMP which still needs
> some minor attention).
>
> These should all be addressed in the next round of updates.

OK, seems we are of the same mind, I just wanted to make sure of that :-)

Michael.




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