Re: [PHP-DOC] Re: multibyte characters in pdf manual From: Jouni Ahto (jah <email protected>)
Date: 10/12/01

On 12 Oct 2001 jimw <email protected> wrote:

> Rui Hirokawa <louis <email protected>> wrote:
> > When I checked php manual available in www.php.net,
> > I found multibyte characters of php manual in pdf format are
> > completely broken.
> >
> > I don't know about jadetex, but I suspect that
> > it has some problem to process multibyte characters.

What I remember from my experiments more than two years ago, I think it's
not jadetex. It's tex. We should be using either omega (version of tex
that handles 16-bit unicode chars) or (in case of just japanese) jtex. I
never had any success with either one. Dvipdfm, which is currently used
for the last stage of pdf creation, should be capable of handling
japanese, chinese, korean and a few other languages too, if provided with
the right input and configured correctly. At least according to its
documentation.

> has anyone built pdf's for the multibyte translations successfully?

no :(

> any tips on things (fonts, whatever) that need to be installed for
> this to work correctly are welcome. (and should get documented
> someplace!)

The only thing I can say is that we should expect to anyone wanting to
read pdf version in japanese to actually have installed asian language
pack for acrobat reader or already having the local version. Making
bitmaps out of those characters is really overkill and, I'd guess, would
result to the pdf file being tens of megas, even compressed...

I hope adobe still offers the asian language pack. One of the problems
would then just be mapping from tex fonts on output to the fonts to be
used when viewing in pdf reader.

If this gives anyone any hints, some snippets what I got when installing
the asian language pack for acrobat (and yes, I can view many pdf's in
japanese without anything extra encoded into the file (not that I'd
understood them...)).

/usr/local/Acrobat4/Resource/CIDFont:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2138544 Jun 24 1999
HeiseiKakuGo-W5-Acro
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3185156 Jun 24 1999 HeiseiMin-W3-Acro

/usr/local/Acrobat4/Resource/CMap:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6373 Jun 24 1999
Adobe-Japan1-90ms-RKSJ
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8364 Jun 24 1999
Adobe-Japan1-90pv-RKSJ
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2016 Jun 24 1999 Adobe-Japan1-H-CID
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7298 Jun 24 1999
Adobe-Japan1-H-Host
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7303 Jun 24 1999 Adobe-Japan1-H-Mac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22228 Jun 24 1999 Adobe-Japan1-PS-H
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13051 Jun 24 1999 Adobe-Japan1-PS-V
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162587 Jun 24 1999 Adobe-Japan1-UCS2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135792 Jun 24 1999 UniJIS-UCS2-H
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1657 Jun 24 1999 UniJIS-UCS2-HW-H
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4440 Jun 24 1999 UniJIS-UCS2-HW-V
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4356 Jun 24 1999 UniJIS-UCS2-V

/usr/local/Acrobat4/Resource/Encoding:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Jun 24 1999
CharRange-Adobe-Japan1.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162 Jun 24 1999
CharType-Adobe-Japan1.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13968 Jun 24 1999
FontProp-Japanese.dat

-- Jouni

PS: Is EUC too related to japanese, or to chinese?