Jirka Kosek wrote: > 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.
I don't know how to do that. And I doubt that a normal user wants to do that by hand. That's why, *if* there is something XXE can do to automate the process of embedding custom fonts in the PDF it generates, we would like to implement it. > 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. > Why isn't Adobe providing built-in fonts covering a large 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/ > Thank you for these pointers. I've translated these pages using Google Language Tools and I'll read them.
