I think that characters in supplement 3 of Adobe-Japan1-4 are not defined in
UNICODE.
So I cannot use these pre-rotated characters.
Is this right?

Thank you,
KuMi

> My last release already supports Adobe-Japan1-4 in Acrobat 5.0 with the
> Adobe Asian font pack.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Paulo Soares
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:    Kumata Mitsugu [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent:    Wednesday, June 05, 2002 2:20
>> To:    Paulo Soares; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject:    Re: [iText-questions] Unicode 3.1/hkscs support
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> Does the follwing mean iText will support Adobe-Japan1-3 Character
>> Collection too?
>> If so I will be very happy as a Japanese iText user.
>> I sometimes need to use pre-rotated latin1 glyphs in vertical line.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> KuMi
>> 
>> 
>>> You have three options:
>>> 
>>> - If your pdf is to be read with Acrobat 5 with the Adobe CJK font pack
>> then
>>> all that is required is to tweak the font supplement from Adobe-CNS1-0
>> to
>>> Adobe-CNS1-3. I'll have this in the next release, it will still work in
>>> Acrobat 4.0 but without the new characters, of course.
>>> 
>>> - your font contains the characters from Unicode block \uff00 (Halfwidth
>> and
>>> Fullwidth Forms). See
>>> http://www.lowagie.com/iText/faq.html#preformattedtext.
>>> 
>>> - Otherwise it's just a matter of programming although I must say that a
>>> font that doesn't include \u0020-\u007e characters is really weird. The
>>> sequence is as follows:
>>> 
>>> 1 - create two fonts, the HK and TIMES for example.
>>> 2 - read the text from the database
>>> 3 - divide the text in chunks each one using a font depending on the
>>> character range.
>>> 4 - assemble the chunks into a phrase and use the phrase.
>>> 
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Paulo Soares
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From:    Zhen  Cua [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>> Sent:    Tuesday, June 04, 2002 7:48
>>>> To:    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> Subject:    [iText-questions] unicode 3.1/hkscs support
>>>> 
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> 
>>>> I am reposting this question from the forum.
>>>> The current CJKFont does not seem to include support for HKSCS
>> (HongKong
>>>> Supplementary character set) characters, and hence I am forced to embed
>> a
>>>> TTF. Unfortunately, the TTF does not contain support for other
>> characters
>>>> such as latin1 and basic punctuations, I've tried using MS Arial
>> Unicode
>>>> but it contains only chracters until unicode 2.0, I am generating the
>> pdf
>>>> based on the contents of the database, so it is almost impossible to
>>>> pre-determine the font to be used. Is there a solution to this problem?
>>>> will it be possible to modify something in the code to allow it to
>> specify
>>>> two or more fonts in a call to new Chunk() or new Phrase() such that it
>>>> will automatically search the character in font2 if it is no in font1?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Zhen
>>>> 
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