Acrobat, Unicode, Advanced usage

2002-06-29 Thread Tex Texin
I was about to purchase Acrobat to make some pdfs of files that make advanced usage of Unicode, and then it occured to me I don't know that much about Acrobat's technology. Does it work from the graphical images produced by other programs and turn them into PDF format or does it get more involved

Re: Acrobat, Unicode, Advanced usage

2002-06-30 Thread Tex Texin
Hi, Thanks to everyone that replied. As an initial trial I made a PDF of the Compelling Unicode example page. I made it by reading the html page with Word, tweaking the text and layout and printing to a postscript file. Then I converted to pdf with gsview/ghostscript. I played with a few of the

RE: Acrobat, Unicode, Advanced usage

2002-07-01 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Hi Tex, > If you want to have a look the file is at: > http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/unicodeexample.pdf A few languages are broken for me: - Tibetan: subscript signs aren't kerned below base letters; - Khmer: at least one combining vowel is displayed on a dotted circle; - Farsi and Urdu: no

RE: Acrobat, Unicode, Advanced usage

2002-07-01 Thread Greenwood, Timothy
gt; Subject: Re: Acrobat, Unicode, Advanced usage > > > Hi, > Thanks to everyone that replied. > > As an initial trial I made a PDF of the Compelling Unicode > example page. > I made it by reading the html page with Word, tweaking the text and > layout and printing to a

Re: Acrobat, Unicode, Advanced usage

2002-07-01 Thread Tex Texin
Thanks to Bob Hallisey and James Kass, the Unicode example pdf is now much improved. Bob noted the Code2000 font was not embeddable and with James permission, created a new version of the pdf using Acrobat, not GhostScript. This version at least looks like what is on my screen. http://www.i18ngu

Re: Acrobat, Unicode, Advanced usage

2002-07-09 Thread Eric Muller
Greenwood, Timothy wrote: >This question is pertinent to one asked me the other day for which I did not have an >answer. Is the code set of an original document relevant for PDF - say EUC, SJIS, PDF >- will the output perform text searches correctly for differing code set inputs? > PDF document