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Greetings all - Here is a one-time brief background: My company sells a product which generates and displays PDF files in an external window similar to the ActiveView sample in the Acrobat SDK. For the web, it generates a PDF file that is loaded into Acrobat Reader. The product runs with Acrobat Business Tools 4.05, Acrobat 4.05 or Acrobat 5.0, as well as AcroRead 5.1, etc. We are working to support multibyte character set (Chinese) data. The problem is this: Our PDF files (with Chinese character data) are correctly displayed in Acrobat Exchange 3.0 (direct US install with no Chinese packs), but they are incorrectly displayed in Acrobat business Tools 4.05, Acrobat 5.0, and AcroRead 5.1, even with Chinese font packs applied. When the raw PDF file is opened in Notepad (Chinese Win2000 Server), the characters are (for the most part) translated correctly! So, it seems that the Chinese character codes themselves within the PDF file are correct, but they won't display correctly in Acrobat versions later than Exchange 3.0. Here is a brief excerpt showing the lines that specify encoding, etc. ... << /Type /Font /Subtype /TrueType /Name /F0 /BaseFont /CourierNew /FirstChar 32 /LastChar 255 /Widths [ 595 595 595 ...[deletia]... 595 595 595] /Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding /FontDescriptor 12 0 R >> ... NOTE: I have a 230k .ZIP file that contains the entore sample PDF file with Chinese characters, as well as a .DOC file with some screenshots showing the behavior. But rather than spam everyone in this mailing list with it, I can provide it on request. Adobe has provided some good clues, and noted that the PDF does not contain any reference to using Chinese font resources, but they're not sure why it actually displays in Exchange 3.01. Any ideas on this very strange problem, and how to generated PDFs that will display multibyte characters? I'm hoping it's a simple BaseFont or Encoding change, but.... Thanks in advance for any help! G. Bruce Rodgers Senior Software Developer eiStream, Inc. 1225 Jefferson Road Rochester, NY 14623 Phone: (585) 424-1950 x262 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
