[pdftex] Generating CJK in PDF

[Otfried Cheong]

Hi Petr,

thanks a lot for the detailed reply.  This is exactly what I was missing.

\pdffontattr is not yet in the manual, I will remember to look in the pdftex sources first before I ask a question next time :-)

Otfried

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Subject:	Re: [pdftex] Generating CJK in PDF
Author:	Petr Sojka <sojka at informatics.muni.cz>
Date:		 Fri,  4 May 2001 16:30:00 +0100

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:57:15PM +0200, Otfried Cheong wrote: Hi,

> Currently it is not really possible to produce CJK PDF files with > pdftex.  
I don't think so.
> Certainly one can use Werner's CJK package, or hlatex etc.,
> using several Type1 8bit fonts to cover a single 16bit font.  But the > resulting PDF files are essentially encrypted - it is possible to view > and print them, but one cannot copy and paste, or search for text in
> the file, because the viewer has no idea what the character codes mean.

It has been possible since Jul 2000; take your CMAP resources, or Adobe's from http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/technotes/acrobatpdf.html
and put them in the PDF file using \pdffontattr command (i don't know whether Thanh already managed putting a note
about it into the manual :-( ):

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