Hussein Shafie wrote:
> I didn't realize that. I'm stunned to learn that Acrobat Reader does not
> support the whole Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane
I'm not sure I understand the problem here. Once we got Java (and
therefore XMLmind) to use an appropriate font for the Bengali region of
Unicode (as documented in emails on this list earlier this year), we did
not have much trouble getting PDFs with *embedded* Unicode Bengali (and
IPA region) fonts. And since we embedded the fonts in the PDFs, Acrobat
Reader (or other PDF reader programs) does not have a problem.
> [1] You must configure FOP or XEP to use Central Europe Fonts (not
> Courier, Helvetica, and Times). This step is *pretty* *hard*.
We chose to go through the DocBook-to-WordXML-to-PDF path, rather than
the DocBook-to-FO-to-PDF path; maybe that's the difference. (At one
point, we used to DocBook-to-RTF route, and that also handled the
Bengali fonts just fine; but the WordXML route was much better for other
reasons.)
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Mike Maxwell
maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
