Parent: #650
Upstream issues
Current PdfBox.Net assessment
PdfBox.Net is mixed here:
- W2 vertical displacement ranges are already stored compactly.
- Direct font cache behavior still has memory-pressure risk.
- Base 14 mapping supports canonical names and common aliases, but not fuzzy suffix/name matching.
- Normal PDF font embedding drops advanced OpenType layout tables, which avoids one corruption mode but does not preserve those tables.
- New text creation through Skia glyph layout is stronger for Bidi/HarfBuzz shaping, but existing PDF rendering can still hit per-glyph/fallback limitations.
Next actions
- Track upstream font-cache and Base 14 matching decisions.
- Add fixtures for fuzzy Base 14 names and combining-mark rendering.
- Compare standalone TTFSubsetter behavior with Java before changing table preservation behavior.
- Keep HarfBuzz/Bidi improvements as accepted backend functionality, but do not use them to claim upstream bug closure without matching fixtures.
Acceptance criteria
- Each font/glyph issue has a documented applies/does-not-apply assessment backed by fixtures or source comparison.
- Any fuzzy Base 14 or subsetting behavior change follows upstream semantics unless explicitly accepted as a .NET adaptation.
Parent: #650
Upstream issues
Current PdfBox.Net assessment
PdfBox.Net is mixed here:
Next actions
Acceptance criteria