Hussein Shafie wrote:
> To our surprise, we have discovered a few months ago that, unlike HTML
> and XML, PDF (and Acrobat Reader) is a format which cannot be easily
> internationalized. Solving the question you ask is currently on the top
> of our TODO list because this problem happens to all non-Latin1 users
> (that is, not only to Chinese users but also to Russian users, Czech
> users, etc).
May be I'm missing point there, but it should be sufficient to embed
fonts which contains characters you want to use into PDF. It is usually
sufficient to use Times New Roman and Arial from MS as a replacement for
built in Adobe fonts as MS fonts cover larger subset of Unicode.
Both in FOP and XEP it is just matter of simple change in configuration
file to reference to user provided fonts instead of built in Adobe fonts.
Jirka
P.S. I'm maintaining page in Czech with description of font
configuration for FOP a XEP. Maybe with a little help of Google
Translate it can be useful for other people:
http://www.kosek.cz/sw/fop/
http://www.kosek.cz/sw/xep/
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