Asmus wrote: >The Unicode Standard easily uses hundreds of fonts for the code charts, >from a variety of sources. Despite what should "theoretically" work, not >all systems can actually print every code chart. Some users cannot print >certain of the existing PDFs on their systems, and POD providers have >similar issues. The Unicode code charts provide a very nice "stress >test" for some aspects of rendering, it turns out. > >So, as long as code charts create production issues, print-on-demand for >them is effectively not feasible.
My hard-copy of the code charts was printed by Lulu - they're too big to print out on my office laserprinters! The only issue was joining together the fonts that had been split up when the charts were split into separate PDFs; but the Consortium wouldn't have that problem, as it would just generate the entire PDF as one document. (And unlike me, the Consortium probably has Distiller.) >The standard annexes exist in HTML format. For Unicode 5.0, I took the That's more of an issue - I hadn't realized the annexes were actually composed in HTML - I'd assumed they were written in a high-level markup language and the HTML generated. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
