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Mostly Distiller 5.0, yes, and quite a few by Distiller 4.0 for Macintosh
too. The sampling is quite random, I wrote a "robot" that automatically
downloadsPDF  files from the Web using Google search.

I guess I wil just add a special provision to my parser to ignore the word
"def" in Postscript streams.

Thanks for your help.

Peter Persits
Persits Software, Inc.
http://www.persits.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Leonard Rosenthol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [PDFdev] Irregularities in a CMap stream


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> At 12:24 AM -0400 9/26/03, Peter Persits wrote:
> >I do realize that not all PDFs use /ToUnicode (although their number
> >is significant, approx. 600 out of 2000 in my randomly picked batch
> >of files have it).
>
> Your sampling isn't very "random", and I would bet that all
> of those 600 are from Distiller 5.0 or later, or Adobe InDesign.
> Almost none of the other PDF production tools out there genereate
> /ToUnicode.
>
>
> >Would you happen to know the meaning of the word "def"  in a Cmap
> >(see original message)? And why would it be placed inside a
> >dictionary?
> >
>
> It's Postscript code for "define".   That cmap is Postscript
> formatted data, NOT PDF.
>
>
> Leonard
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