[pdftex] display unicode string with \pdfannot

[Vasile Gaburici]

Of course it doesn't work because \pdfannot takes raw PDF as input.
LICRs, which is what the ucs package produces for any char > 127, will
not do what you think. For instance:

\pdfannot{/Subtype /Square /Border [ 0 0 0.1 ] /C [0 0 1] %
/T (Some title) /Contents (My text: \backslash) }

Will produce a box with this contents:

My Text: delimiter "026E30F

You need to change catcodes so you can output UTF-16BE unmolested,
which is what PDF needs for *its* strings; see section 3.8.1 in PDF
1.7 reference.

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Suman_Tripathy
<Suman_Tripathy at satyam.com> wrote:
> Please check my sample code. It does not work. I am attaching the output as well. The two question marks are for "degree" and "Registered Trade Mark" symbol.Unicode for them is 176 and 174 respectively. I tried with \PreloadUnicodePage{0} as well. It did not work.
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{amsmath}
> \usepackage{ucs}
> %\PreloadUnicodePage{0}
> \PrerenderUnicode{??}
> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
> %\PrerenderUnicode{??}
> \begin{document}
> \section{Introduction}
> Hi
> \pdfannot{/Subtype /Square /Border [ 0 0 0.1] /C [0 0 1]
> /T (BoilerPlate) /Contents (Phrase Code =?? )}
> \end{document}
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Suman Tripathy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vasile Gaburici [mailto:vgaburici at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:28 PM
> To: Suman_Tripathy
> Cc: pdftex at tug.org
> Subject: Re: [pdftex] display unicode string with \pdfannot
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Suman_Tripathy
> <Suman_Tripathy at satyam.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to get a simple thing solved for quite long time.Can you help please?
>>
>> Can I display unicode string with \pdfannot ?
>>
>> unicode is working in the pdf for normal text display. But I am not able to display string which contains unicode in pop-up notes by using \pdfannot.It gives error as "Please insert PrerenderUnicode{°} into preamble".
>
> Why don't you do that? You need to do it to overcome a limitation of
> the ucs package. Please refer to page 5 of the documentation of ucs
> (http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/unicode/ucs.ps.gz)
>
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>>
>> Suman Tripathy
>
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