--- Forwarded Message from "JEFFREY J. HAYDEN" <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:39:11 -1000
>From: "JEFFREY J. HAYDEN" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5901 Chinese in a pdf file
>In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]>
>To: LLTI Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Marlene Johnshoy wrote:
> Have any of you ever embedded Chinese fonts in a pdf file?
Embedding of CJK and any other double-byte fonts are not possible in
Acrobat. See below.
> If you have, I need some help. I'm working with Acrobat 4 on a Mac
> and I have installed all the Asian font pack stuff and am using the
> Distiller, but I can't get the fonts to embed. It may be a font type
> problem, but the fonts I am using I downloaded from Adobe. This is
> message I am getting):
>=20
> =09"There was an error processing a page. the encoding (CMap)
> =09specified by a font is missing or corrupted."
>=20
> And in the Document Info - Fonts in the Reader, it does not say
> anything about the Chinese font, so it is not getting embedded.
In the Acrobat Guide it says
=09Embedding fonts in PDF files PDFWriter can embed Roman Type 1,
=09TrueType, and base fonts (Windows only) in a PDF file. This
=09ensures that the original font is used for display and printing on
=09computers that do not have the font installed. Adobe Type Manager
=09(ATM) must be installed and loaded as a control panel for
=09PDFWriter to be able to embed Type 1 fonts. PDFWriter cannot embed
=09Asian fonts.
and
=09If you do not embed fonts in a PDF file and a user opens the file
=09on a system that does not have the file's fonts, Acrobat
=09temporarily substitutes fonts. For Roman text, Acrobat uses serif
=09and sans serif Multiple Master fonts to simulate the original
=09font. For Asian text, Acrobat uses fonts from the installed Asian
=09Language Kit or from similar fonts on the user's system. (See
=09About font embedding and substitution for an example.) If you
=09embed a font and the user has that font on their system, they can
=09edit the text in the PDF file.
For the error message, make sure that the Asian Font Packs installed into
the Acrobat > Resource > folders and not just the into the Reader >
Resource> folders. You need to make the Asian Font Pack resources
available to each application separately (usually done by copying files
over).
You basically have two options:
=091. Generate the PDF files with PDFWriter (I would imagine that
=09 Distiller would do the same thing, but maybe not) and make sure
=09 that your recipipient's are running Reader 4.0.5 with whichever
=09 Font Pack the coding for which you happen to be using.
=092. Get James Walker's PrintToPDF=20
=09 [ http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/pdf.html ]
=09 a shareware (US$20) print driver that creates PDF files and has
=09 the option for generating any font into a bitmap image, the
=09 resulting file being readable even in Reader 3.x without any of
=09 the Asian Font Packs.
If you have any other questions about generating PDF files with Asian
languages, let me know, I do it all the time.
=09=09=09=09=09Jeffrey
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=09=09=09 Jeffrey J. Hayden
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Department of East Asian=09=09=09=09 Moore Hall 382
Languages and Literatures=09=09=09 1890 East-West Road
University of Hawai'i at Manoa=09=09=09 Honolulu, HI 96822
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