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.
