Hello LilyPond developers,
When using certain fonts (in my case, Noto CJK, both pan-CJK and subset
versions), the output looks right but when copied from the generated PDF file,
everything becomes garbage. For example:
\version "2.22.0"
\markup {
Hello LilyPond developers,
When using certain fonts (in my case, Noto CJK, both pan-CJK and subset
versions), the output looks right but when copied from the generated PDF file,
everything becomes garbage. For example:
\version "2.22.0"
\markup {
Sorry, it seems that there are some bugs with my email client. It showed that
the email delivery was failed, so I resent the mail. But actually it
succeeded...
And sorry for the terribly generated layout...
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> When using certain fonts (in my case, Noto CJK, both pan-CJK and
> subset versions), the output looks right but when copied from the
> generated PDF file, everything becomes garbage. [...]
Confirmed.
> It seems to be all about CID. Maybe related to Issue #6058?
Yes and no. The fix for #605
>> When using certain fonts (in my case, Noto CJK, both pan-CJK and
>> subset versions), the output looks right but when copied from the
>> generated PDF file, everything becomes garbage. [...]
>
> Confirmed.
>
>> It seems to be all about CID. Maybe related to Issue #6058?
>
> Yes and no. The
>> AFAICS, to make copy and paste work for CID fonts it is necessary
>> to add a ToUnicode map. We don't do that currently. [This is
>> probably worth an entry in our issues database.]
This is now issue #6162.
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6162
Werner
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Hi Huanyu Liu,
When using certain fonts (in my case, Noto CJK, both pan-CJK and subset
versions), the output looks right but when copied from the generated PDF file,
everything becomes garbage. For example:
\version "2.22.0"
\markup {
\override
Hi Knut,
> Do you use a lilypond installer or do you build lilypond from source? Which
> operating system do you use?
I am using Ubuntu 21.10 and installed LilyPond from its repository
(2.22.0-10). I also tried the latest stable (2.22.1-1) and development
(2.23.3-1) installer from the LilyPond
>> When using certain fonts (in my case, Noto CJK, both pan-CJK and
>> subset versions), the output looks right but when copied from the
>> generated PDF file, everything becomes garbage. [...]
>
> The problem does not appear if the cairo backend is used, see
> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond
>>> When using certain fonts (in my case, Noto CJK, both pan-CJK and
>>> subset versions), the output looks right but when copied from the
>>> generated PDF file, everything becomes garbage. [...]
>>
>> The problem does not appear if the cairo backend is used, see
>> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/li
>>> The problem does not appear if the cairo backend is used, see
>>> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/853.
>>
>> This is good news!
>
> When copying and pasting from a PDF generated using cairo backend,
> some characters turned into similar but different characters. The
>
The problem does not appear if the cairo backend is used, see
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/853.
>>>
>>> This is good news!
>>
>> When copying and pasting from a PDF generated using cairo backend,
>> some characters turned into similar but different characters.
>> I've looked up the cairo bug tracker but couldn't find something
>> related to copy-and-paste of CID-keyed fonts. Masamichi-san, could
>> you submit an issue there so that this gets fixed eventually? I
>> guess this would be beneficial for other projects, too.
>
> In my experiment, Cairo wit
>> In my experiment, Cairo without LilyPond does not generate garbled
>> characters. It seems to be a LilyPond issue instead of a Cairo
>> issue. Here's a python-cairo sample that works fine. [...]
>
> I can conform that this small script generates a PDF where
> copy-and-paste works as expected
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