Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth <at> adobe.com> writes: > > On 8/28/13 2:11 AM, "Ivan B. Gregor" <ivanbgregor <at> gmail.com> wrote: > > >As far as I remember this method was pioneerd by Adobe InDesign, the first > >full unicode Windows version, I do not remember the number. > > Nope, predates ID. First appeared (at least from Adobe) in a version of > the PDFMakers for Office, IIRC.
OMG, PDFMaker! How could I have forgotten that! > > And that version of ID didn't always do that for the Info - it did it for > all content. > > > Actually it > >makes a lot of sense, because InDesign just copied info from Windows > >structures that had it in Unicode. > > Interesting theory, but incorrect. InDesign (and other Adobe products) > use their own Unicode handling routes, not those from the OS. Those fields are filled by the data from the document and those usually are pre-filled from the OS. Whose and how broken Unicode routines were used for that purpose is secondary. My point is that having something in Unicode there is no point in trying hard to convert in into PDFDocEncoding when Unicode is perfectly available in PDF thanks to FEFF or FFFE prefix. > > >Trying to convert it into plain PDF string is another set of problems. > > Either you can do it - in which case, you do - or you can't, and you > don't. It's quite simple. Or you do not try, because what is the point? > > >Plain PDF strings are not ASCII, they are PDFDocEncoding, that is another > >can of worms nobody wanted to open. > > True. It was a fun rant, but I think it is getting boring for the general audience. -- Ivan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
