[open-beos-printing] Re: PDF Writer 2

>ClipToPicture(BPicture *picture, BPoint point, uint32 unknown)
>is implemented. I am surprised that it already works quite well!

Well done, Michael!

>The remaining issues are:
>- don't know excatley what the meaning of parameters point 
>  and unknown is, probably an offset and if the picture
>  or inverse picture should be used for clipping.

point.x and point.y are the origin where to start *playing* the 
clipping BPicture, yes.
I guess, like you, unknow is in

>- clipping to inverse picture is not implemented

Well, with current PDFlib features, it wouldn't be easy.
Maybe we can ask help PDFlib' Thomas Wertz about this topic... 

>- clipping to text or image is not implemented

DrawShape on font glyph shapes=3F
For image, I don't even know how to figure this kind of clipping in my 
mind!

>Text is now encoded as MacRoman. Interestingly I have
>not managed to encode text in WinAnsi correctly!

In previous version (unreleased pre v0.3, the one I send to you first 
time), I was using the BFont encoding code, as the font was/is 
embebded. 
It seem to work to me, but I'm not a PDF font encoding guru...
In fact, there is still a comment about that before the 
convert=5Ffrom=5Futf8 call in PDFWriter::DrawString()

Could you tell me why I was wrong=3F

>Other issues:
>There seems to be a bug in the image drawing routine.

Could you give details here=3F

Philippe.
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