--- 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]> ------------------ 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 ?=09?=09?=09?=09?=09?=09?=09?=09?=09? =09=09=09 Jeffrey J. Hayden =09=09=09 (=CD=F5=C1=FA=BE=D4/=A4=FD=C0s=BEs) 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 eFax: 413 - 487 - 0389 [log in to unmask] http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jeffrey If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's okay. But you've got to shoot for something." - Robert Townsend !=09!=09!=09!=09!=09!=09!=09!=09!=09!