/BaseFont is a required key for type 0, type 1, and truetype
font dictionaries, but not for type 3 font dictionaries.
This is mechanical; type 0 fonts don't even use this yet
(but probably should).
PDFFont::initialize() is now empty and could be removed,
but maybe we'll put stuff there again later, so I'm leaving
it around for a bit longer.
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 loading OpenType fonts, either as a replacement for the standard
14 fonts or an embedded one, we previously passed the font size as the
_point_ size to the loader class. The difference is quite subtle, being
that Gfx::ScaledFont uses the optional dpi parameter to convert the
input from inches to pixels.
This meant that our glyphs were exactly 1.333% too large, causing them
to overlap in places.
The mapping of standard font to replacement now looks like this:
Times New Roman -> Liberation Serif
Courier -> Liberation Mono
Helvetica, Arial -> Liberation Sans
DeprecatedFlyString relies heavily on DeprecatedString's StringImpl, so
let's rename it to A) match the name of DeprecatedString, B) write a new
FlyString class that is tied to String.
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.
