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> 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! I may be wrong but that seems a give-away that the PDF is made comprehensively wrongly. You should never see that if you are working with single byte fonts. I assume you are working with single byte fonts because of your reference to BaseFont and Encoding. Type1 and TrueType font types are always single byte fonts; it is impossible for them to be anything else if you look at the spec. The Encoding mechanism is clearly a 256 slot entry. I suspect Acrobat 3 would see an operating system font by that name and pass your glyph data directly to it without checking the Encoding. This is defnitely wrong of it. To work with Chinese fonts you will have to understand about CID fonts and CMaps, as Mark noted. You will need to know exactly what encoding your fonts use. If you haven't read "CJKV Information Processing", now is the time to stop using it as a paperweight (though at 1100 pages it is a very good one). You will also need to target Acrobat 4.0 and above; you will need the appropriate language support installed in Acrobat or Reader. That is, the Chinese (Traditional) or Chinese (Simplified) language pack, depending on which you are targeting. I suspect this may increase the complexity of your project by an order of magitude or two, but that's CJK fonts for you... Aandi To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
