Hello all,

Does the follwing mean iText will support Adobe-Japan1-3 Character
Collection too?
If so I will be very happy as a Japanese iText user.
I sometimes need to use pre-rotated latin1 glyphs in vertical line.

Thank you,
KuMi


> You have three options:
> 
> - If your pdf is to be read with Acrobat 5 with the Adobe CJK font pack then
> all that is required is to tweak the font supplement from Adobe-CNS1-0 to
> Adobe-CNS1-3. I'll have this in the next release, it will still work in
> Acrobat 4.0 but without the new characters, of course.
> 
> - your font contains the characters from Unicode block \uff00 (Halfwidth and
> Fullwidth Forms). See
> http://www.lowagie.com/iText/faq.html#preformattedtext.
> 
> - Otherwise it's just a matter of programming although I must say that a
> font that doesn't include \u0020-\u007e characters is really weird. The
> sequence is as follows:
> 
> 1 - create two fonts, the HK and TIMES for example.
> 2 - read the text from the database
> 3 - divide the text in chunks each one using a font depending on the
> character range.
> 4 - assemble the chunks into a phrase and use the phrase.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Paulo Soares
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:    Zhen  Cua [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent:    Tuesday, June 04, 2002 7:48
>> To:    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject:    [iText-questions] unicode 3.1/hkscs support
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I am reposting this question from the forum.
>> The current CJKFont does not seem to include support for HKSCS (HongKong
>> Supplementary character set) characters, and hence I am forced to embed a
>> TTF. Unfortunately, the TTF does not contain support for other characters
>> such as latin1 and basic punctuations, I've tried using MS Arial Unicode
>> but it contains only chracters until unicode 2.0, I am generating the pdf
>> based on the contents of the database, so it is almost impossible to
>> pre-determine the font to be used. Is there a solution to this problem?
>> will it be possible to modify something in the code to allow it to specify
>> two or more fonts in a call to new Chunk() or new Phrase() such that it
>> will automatically search the character in font2 if it is no in font1?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Zhen
>> 
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