[xep-support] Problems with Japanese pdf

Fogal, Lee lee.fogal at hp.com
Wed Jan 28 07:58:51 PST 2004


Hi,

We are also evaluating xep (we're using V3.6.3) and are
experiencing a similar problem with Japanese PDFs.  At first
glance I was pleased to see your response about a bug that
will be fixed in the next maintenance release.  However, we
are using _embedded_ fonts.  The Japanese PDF we are
creating as our "proof of xep viability" document is not 
searchable with Acrobat 4 or 5.  We do not see the problem
with Acrobat 6.  We get the same error messages as reported
by David.  This is a critical problem for us, as we need to make
a go/no go decision on xep very soon.  Are you certain that
the bug fix will deal only with non-embedded fonts?

To summarize, our problem is that search in Acrobat 4 and 5
always fails, with the error message:

     "Attempt to release an unlocked object"

After that, the next error message sometimes appears when OK
is selected from the error dialog:

     "The encoding (CMap) specified by a font is corrupted."

Thanks.

Lee Fogal
Hewlett-Packard Company

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xep-support at renderx.com 
> [mailto:owner-xep-support at renderx.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Peshkov
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 8:09 AM
> To: David Cramer (Tech Pubs)
> Subject: Re[2]: [xep-support] Problems with Japanese pdf
> 
> 
> Hello David,
> 
> Yes, there is a bug indeed. Thanks for your report. This bug 
> affects non-embedded Japanese TrueType fonts only. It will be 
> fixed in the next maintenance release - I suppose it will be 
> available in a week or so.
> 
> Best regards,
> Alexander Peshkov                             
> mailto:peshkov at renderx.com
> RenderX
> 
> 
> DCTP> This same problem occurs when I process the jaxml.xml file from 
> DCTP> the renderx website 
> <http://www.renderx.com/xmlspec.html> Here's 
> DCTP> what I get from xep 3.7.1: 
> http://thingbag.net/docbook/jaxml.pdf. 
> DCTP> I notice that the japanese pdf at the renderx site was 
> created by 
> DCTP> xep 2.7. Can someone confirm that this should work with 
> xep 3.7.1?
> 
> DCTP> Thanks,
> DCTP> David
> 
> DCTP> C:\programs\XEP\afm\CIDFont>dir
> DCTP>  Volume in drive C has no label.
> DCTP>  Volume Serial Number is 5C4F-3EC2
> 
> DCTP>  Directory of C:\programs\XEP\afm\CIDFont
> 
> DCTP> 01/23/2004  05:32 PM    <DIR>          .
> DCTP> 01/23/2004  05:32 PM    <DIR>          ..
> DCTP> 02/06/2003  09:40 AM             2,511 AdobeFnt.lst
> DCTP> 01/23/2004  05:28 PM    <DIR>          CVS
> DCTP> 02/06/2003  09:40 AM         2,138,544 HeiseiKakuGo-W5-Acro
> DCTP> 02/06/2003  09:40 AM         3,185,156 HeiseiMin-W3-Acro
> DCTP> 02/06/2003  09:40 AM         4,119,292 HYGoThic-Medium-Acro
> DCTP> 02/06/2003  09:40 AM         8,317,064 HYSMyeongJo-Medium-Acro
> DCTP> 05/14/2003  11:59 PM         3,179,800 KozGoPro-Medium-Acro.otf
> DCTP> 05/14/2003  11:59 PM         3,909,660 
> KozMinPro-Regular-Acro.otf
> DCTP> 02/06/2003  09:40 AM         4,637,712 MHei-Medium-Acro
> DCTP> 02/06/2003  09:40 AM         6,665,200 MSung-Light-Acro
> DCTP> 02/06/2003  09:40 AM        11,341,944 STSong-Light-Acro
> DCTP>               10 File(s)     47,496,883 bytes
> DCTP>                3 Dir(s)   4,026,470,400 bytes free
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-xep-support at renderx.com 
> >> [mailto:owner-xep-support at renderx.com]On Behalf Of David 
> Cramer (Tech
> >> Pubs)
> >> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:43 PM
> >> To: xep-support at renderx.com
> >> Subject: [xep-support] Problems with Japanese pdf
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Hi there,
> >> I'm evaluating XEP 3.7.1 for generating a Japanese pdf. When
> >> I open the document, Acrobat Reader 6.0 says "The encoding 
> >> (CMap) specified by a font is corrupted." After dismissing 
> >> the document, the japanese text appears fine, but I can't 
> >> select text and searches always turn up no hits. In Acrobat 
> >> (full) 5.0, when I try to do a search, I receive the error: 
> >> "Attempt to release an unlocked object" and I can't select text.
> >> 
> >> I'd be happy to provide the fo source and the resulting 
> pdf off-list.
> >> 
> >> Using XEP 2.8 to render the same document, the pdf opens fine
> >> and can be searched, but as far as I can tell I can't do 
> >> <fo:inline font-family="Courier,HeiseiKakuGo">English and 
> >> Japanese here...</fo:inline> and even have trouble with 
> >> <fo:inline font-weight="italic">English and Japanese 
> >> here...</fo:inline>.
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> David
> >> 
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