My last release already supports Adobe-Japan1-4 in Acrobat 5.0 with the Adobe Asian font pack.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -----Original Message----- > From: Kumata Mitsugu [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 2:20 > To: Paulo Soares; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Unicode 3.1/hkscs support > > 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 > >> > >> _______________________________________________________________ > >> > >> Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > >> August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> iText-questions mailing list > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > > > _______________________________________________ > > iText-questions mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
