[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] [8] Review request for 8023990: regression : postscript file size increase from 6u17

Andrew Brygin andrew.brygin at oracle.com
Thu Dec 5 08:18:01 UTC 2013


Looks fine.

Thanks,
Andrew

On 11/22/2013 7:24 PM, anton nashatyrev wrote:
> Hello,
>
>     this is a duplicate request:
>
>     could you please review the following fix:
>
> fix: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alitvinov/8023990/webrev.00 
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ealitvinov/8023990/webrev.00>
> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8023990
>
>      When the FcFontConfiguration was added for using fontconfig on a 
> set of Linux platforms (as well as OpenSolaris) (the corresponding rfe 
> is here <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8023990>), the 
> implementation of the method FcFontConfiguration.getFontDescriptors() 
> returned just an empty array. This functionality is actually not used 
> by anyone except of the PSPrinterJob which tries to find out whether 
> the string could be represented using PS embedded font. If this 
> procedure fails then the PSPrinterJob falls back to glyphs outline 
> printing. As I understand this normally happened for strings 
> containing non-ASCII characters. For ASCII strings PSPrinterJob 
> usually selected the PS embedded font. With the addition of 
> FcFontConfiguration even ASCII strings output starts to fall back to 
> outlines.
>
>     The fix is some basic implementation of the getFontDescriptors() 
> functionality. The returned FontDecriptors don't contain missing glyph 
> information. Though it might be queried from the fontconfig library 
> (with some additional effort) this doesn't change the behavior of 
> PSPrinterJob, since all the fonts has the ISO 10646 encoding (UTF-8), 
> and the PSPrinterJob will still be falling back to outlines for any 
> non-ASCII strings.
>
> Thanks!
> Anton.

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