The PDFFont class hierarchy was very simple (a top-level PDFFont class,
followed by all the children classes that derived directly from it).
While this design was good enough for some things, it didn't correctly
model the actual organization of font types:
* PDF fonts are first divided between "simple" and "composite" fonts.
The latter is the Type0 font, while the rest are all simple.
* PDF fonts yield a glyph per "character code". Simple fonts char codes
are always 1 byte long, while Type0 char codes are of variable size.
To this effect, this commit changes the hierarchy of Font classes,
introducing a new SimpleFont class, deriving from PDFFont, and acting as
the parent of Type1Font and TrueTypeFont, while Type0 still derives from
PDFFont directly. This distinction allows us now to:
* Model string rendering differently from simple and composite fonts:
PDFFont now offers a generic draw_string method that takes a whole
string to be rendered instead of a single char code. SimpleFont
implements this as a loop over individual bytes of the string, with
T1 and TT implementing draw_glyph for drawing a single char code.
* Some common fields between T1 and TT fonts now live under SimpleFont
instead of under PDFfont, where they previously resided.
* Some other interfaces specific to SimpleFont have been cleaned up,
with u16/u32 not appearing on these classes (or in PDFFont) anymore.
* Type0Font's rendering still remains unimplemented.
As part of this exercise I also took the chance to perform the following
cleanups and restructurings:
* Refactored the creation and initialisation of fonts. They are all
centrally created at PDFFont::create, with a virtual "initialize"
method that allows them to initialise their inner members in the
correct order (parent first, child later) after creation.
* Removed duplicated code.
* Cleaned up some public interfaces: receive const refs, removed
unnecessary ctro/dtors, etc.
* Slightly changed how Type1 and TrueType fonts are implemented: if
there's an embedded font that takes priority, otherwise we always
look for a replacement.
* This means we don't do anything special for the standard fonts. The
only behavior previously associated to standard fonts was choosing an
encoding, and even that was under questioning.
When rendering text, a sequence of bytes corresponds to a glyph, but not
necessarily to a character. This misunderstanding permeated through the
Encoding through to the Font classes, which were all trying to calculate
such values. Moreover, this was done only to identify "space"
characters/glyphs, which were getting a special treatment (e.g., avoid
rendering). Spaces are not special though -- there might be fonts that
render something for them -- and thus should not be skipped
We have a new, improved string type coming up in AK (OOM aware, no null
state), and while it's going to use UTF-8, the name UTF8String is a
mouthful - so let's free up the String name by renaming the existing
class.
Making the old one have an annoying name will hopefully also help with
quick adoption :^)
It was previously the job of the renderer to create fonts, load
replacements for the standard 14 fonts and to pass the font size back
to the PDFFont when asking for glyph widths.
Now, the renderer tells the font its size at creation, as it doesn't
change throughout the life of the font. The PDFFont itself is now
responsible to decide whether or not it needs to use a replacement
font, which still is Liberation Serif for now.
This means that we can now render embedded TrueType fonts as well :^)
It also makes the renderer's job much more simple and leads to a much
cleaner API design.
We would previously pass this function a unicode code point, which is
not actually what we want here.
Instead, we want the "raw" code point, with the font itself deciding
whether or not it needs to be re-mapped.
This same mistake in terminology applied to PS1FontProgram.
A PDFFont can now be asked for its specific type and whether it is part
of the standard 14 fonts. It now also contains a method to draw a
glyph, which is stubbed-out for now.
This will be useful for the renderer to take into consideration when
drawing text, since we don't include replacements for the standard set
of fonts yet, but still want to make use of embedded fonts when
available.
