Re: Patch: DPSxshow et al. in Art

[Fred Kiefer]

Adrian Robert wrote:
> Finally, I tried disabling the xshow,etc. implementations in Art and just
> letting the GSGState handle them.  Performance actually did not suffer
> too much (despite another function call layer for every glyph), but
> this resulted in some type of glyph mis-translation, displaying
> scrambled characters.  If I subtracted 28 from the value of each
> UTF-8 character I passed in, the problem was fixed for ASCII,
> however for other characters this caused a crash.  If this issue
> could be fixed, we might not need the Art implementation, though I
> still think it makes sense to have it there..

It would be great, if you could find out what is causing this offset of 
28. I had a similar problem with the cairo backend and solved it with 
the hack of subtracting 29. No idea, why it was 29 for me, when it is 28 
for you.

Fred