Jeremias, Thanks for your reply. I have read alot of these technical note pdf files. I have some questions.
1. If I do change my Adobe Reader so that it will be able to process the ttf into Unicode, will this mean that others who use the download version of Adobe Reader be able to see my characters correctly? (I presume not.) At present I can read, cut and paste, extended character sets from pdf documents at the RenderX site without doing anything to my Adobe Reader. (see: charents.pdf) http://www.renderx.com/testcases.html 2. I would be very interested in using this method (ToUnicode) to enable embedding the font into my document if the character encoding would also be embeded not just the glyphs. However, the instructions were not clear as to what files where to be "changed" and where these files were to be placed in the Adobe program folders. Further it was not clear what the result of making this change would be, local only or otherwise (see 1 above). 3. I would be very interested in a walk through or talk through if I could be sure that I would have embedded character encodings as a result of running FOP. I would even pay for a class on doing this if someone gave one. The literature is hardly clear to a user like me. 4. At present I am only able to use pfm/pfb fonts to embed character encodings into my pdf documents using FOP. (Yes, ttf fonts do appear correctly when extended characters are needed, but thier is no encoding just glyphs.) Now I am on the look out for pfm/pfb fonts that include characters beyond Latin 1. I can transform my XML using XSL and create an array of NCRs. This will become a merge document for my xsl-fo stylesheet to call up the particular fonts and place each character into an <fo:inline font-family="not-latin-1">&# 299;</fo:inline>. So calling up the correct fonts will only be a matter of writing a XSL stylesheet to pull and create the userconfig.xml for my conversions from the fo document. IOW I can get around the problem of having a need for many different fonts so that all my extended characters will have encodings embeded into the rendered PDF document. If there is an easier way, I would like to know of it (hence, ToUnicode). All this is basically summed up in the need to be able to embed encoding into the PDF document not just the glyphs. I have little interest in changing my Reader locally so that I can see ttf fonts. Any suggestions? Mike Ferrando Washington, DC --- Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this is the same problem as the one of Mark Dudley. It's > simply > the missing ToUnicode feature in FOP. So therefore I have no good > suggestion right now other than encouraging interested parties to > see to > implementing ToUnicode tables. > > On 25.04.2003 00:23:33 Mike Ferrando wrote: > <snip/> > > When the document is open in Acrobat 5, I try to search words > that > > appear in the Arial font. I get no results. Nothing is found by > the > > Acrobat search tool. However, if I transform all text in the Base > > font (Times), and only the one character (&# 299;) in the "Arial" > > font, I can find the whole word up to that character. > > <snip/> > > > Any suggestions? > > > Jeremias Maerki > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
