Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (24 mails)

[Mike FABIAN <mfabian@xxxxxxx>]

xpdf 3.00 can use CID-keyed fonts for display and for embedding in the
PostScript output created for printing now.

The following updated packages for SuSE 9.0 are setup to use this
feature:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/9.0/i586/xpdf-3.00-33.i586.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/9.0/src/xpdf-3.00-33.src.rpm

Together with the CID-keyed font packages available from
(or from your SuSE 9.0 CD set):

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0/suse/noarch/CID-keyed-fonts-MOE-20021114-105.noarch.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0/suse/noarch/CID-keyed-fonts-Munhwa-20021114-105.noarch.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0/suse/noarch/CID-keyed-fonts-Wada-20021114-105.noarch.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0/suse/noarch/CID-keyed-fonts-WadaH-20021114-105.noarch.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0/suse/src/CID-keyed-fonts-MOE-20021114-105.src.rpm

you should be able to display Japanese, Korean and traditional Chinese
Documents which don't already embed the CJK fonts nicely with
anti-aliasing.

In case of Korean and traditional Chinese, I did set it up to embed
the same CID-keyed-fonts also for printing.

In case of Japanese I configured xpdf by default not to embed the
Wadalab fonts by defaults because they look rather ugly.  Instead xpdf
write the standard PostScript names

    Ryumin-Light-EUC-H
    GothicBBB-Medium-EUC-H

into the PostScript output. A Japanese PostScript printer or
Ghostscript with the ghostscript-cjk package and suitable Japanese
TrueType fonts installed can render this nicer compared to embedding
the Wadalab fonts.

Simplified Chinese doesn't work because there are no free CID-keyed
fonts for simplified Chinese as far as I know.

I tested this only for Japanese and Korean because I couldn't find a
traditional Chinese .pdf document which has *not* already embed all
fonts embedded. Can anybody tell me where I can find such a .pdf
document for testing?

-- 
Mike FABIAN   <mfabian@xxxxxxx>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。