Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>    What is the prerequisite for gererating a pdf file with chinese
>> characters can be copied and pasted?
> 
> `ToUnicode' dictionaries for all (sub)fonts within the PDF file.
> 
>>    I found when I use the dvipdfmx, both the type1 chinese character
>> and truetype chinese character can be copied and pasted; when I use
>> the pdflatex to work with TrueType fonts, I can't copy and paster
>> them, why?
> 
> dvipdfmx generates ToUnicode dictionaries automatically, but pdftex
> doesn't do that (yet).  Instead, you have to use Vladimir Volovich's
> `cmap.sty', providing proper mapping files for all subfonts of an
> encoding.  Below you can find a sample cmap file (c1017.cmap) for
> subfont 17 of the C10 encoding (GB 2312) -- it is incomplete and
> contains just the value for a single character.  Because dvipdfmx
> works just fine I was always too lazy to write proper scripts which
> create such cmap files automatically from SFD files.  Volunteers
> welcome.
> 
It seems that Unicode.sty is very regular and cmap files will be easy to
generated. Maybe there is no need to generate cmap files if just using
utf8 fonts with cmap.sty?

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