[Gs-devel] No display of pdfwrite CID glyphs in Acrobat 5.0

[mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp]

Dear Mr. Richard Shih-Ping Chan,

>The attached file is a pdf file created by gs 7.00
>on i686-pc-linux-gnu. It contains CID font glyphs and
>some Times Roman. The file displays in gs but not
>Acrobat 5.0 (only the Times glyphs are visible in
>Acrobat - BTW Acrobat knows that there is a CID font
>in the file in Document Properties->Fonts).

After removing a tag to refer the embedded glyph data stream,
as,

    sed 's,/FontFile3 11 0 R,                 ,g' \
        < testing.pdf > nofont-test.pdf

Acrobat Reader could display the content by "replaced"
Simplified Chinese characters.

Therefore, I suppose there might be something wrong in
CIDFontType0 embedding feature of gs-7.0x. Possibly we
can avoid this problem by setting "NeverEmbed" array.
Of course, PDF by older gs-6.x embedding fonts as
rasterized Type3 can be displayed by Acrobat Reader.

However, CIDFontType0 embedding without rasterization
is great progress, I wish the problem would be fixed
in future.

suzuki toshiya