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Hello,

I'm trying to write a PDF document by hand that displays text in an Eastern
European character set. To do this I'm defining font objects using TrueType
typefaces and custom encoding arrays. Here's a code snippet:-

2 0 obj
<< /Type /Encoding /Differences [ 189 /Dzecyrillic 190 /afii10102 191
/afii10104 192 /Acyrillic 193 /Becyrillic 194 /Vecyrillic 195 /Gecyrillic ]
>>
endobj

3 0 obj << /Type /Font /Subtype /TrueType /Name /Fo0 /BaseFont /CourierNew
/Encoding 2 0 R
>>
endobj

This works great when the document's viewed in Acrobat 6.0. You can see the
correct European characters. It doesn't seem to work though with earlier
versions of Acrobat as standard ANSI(?) characters are substituted
incorrectly. Does anyone know of compatibility issues or restrictions for
custom encodings? The PDF 1.5 specification appears vague on this. I'd
rather not have to embed any fonts if possible. For what it's worth the
above test also works for Type 1 fonts on Acrobat 6.0.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Regards,
Neil Geddes


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