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

[Goldstein, Seth]

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> address@hidden On Behalf Of Matthias
> Kramm
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:05 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] missing characters in generated swf
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> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 04:25:56PM -0500, Goldstein, Seth
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> The glyph id of 0 comes directly from the PDF file-
> so if something has a bug, it's the PDF.
> 
> It's amazing anyway how broken a PDF file can be and still be
> rendered by Adobe Acrobat without a single complaint.
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 

Very interesting.  Learning more about PDFs than I probably ever wanted
to. :)

FYI - the PDF does render "correctly" with Ghostscript, so I'm sifting
through their source code right now to see how they handle that glyph.
But, there is a lot of code here, so if someone wants to lend another
pair of eyes, I'd love the assistance!