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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>You could do something like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>font-family=”Helvetica, Arial, Arial Unicode”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>make sure all of these are mapped in your xep.xml. it’s a font selection strategy that will select the appropriate font for something based on whether the character is in the font list. This would choose a font for the text in order --- Helvetica first (no impact), Arial second (would be embedded and hopefully subsetted) and Arial Unicode last (you of course have to have the font and license to use it, it is huge and has many, many glyphs).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Now, I would give this as a solution if you are formatting a few documents, occasionally. If you are looking for high performance formatting then no way would I do this – Arial Unicode is a 14MB-27MB font (depends on which version you have) and the prolog for the font itself which must be embedded in the PDF is 512KB (we honor the wishes of copyright holders and embed their copyrights into documents when their fonts are used unlike other formatting engines which ignore them). If you are looking for performance then you need to plan your system accordingly and select fonts or a list of fonts that have the glyphs you need.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Kevin Brown<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>RenderX<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xep-support-bounces@renderx.com [mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Darren Munt<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 03, 2012 6:14 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'xep-support@renderx.com'<br><b>Subject:</b> [xep-support] Mixed languages in a single PDF<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>We have a particular problem with some of our documents, which combine system-generated text with user input. We produce the same report in many different languages and sometimes we have an issue whereby user input is in a different character set to the main document language. For example we produce a report in English but some of the user text has been entered in Chinese. There is no way of telling what language the user text might be in, apart from either asking them when they enter it or doing some sort of language-detection (which is how I understand the web browser does it for example).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>When the report is generated in English, we use the Arial font to display text and it does not have character mapping for the Chinese characters, so they do not appear. When we generate the report in Chinese, we use the Sim Sum font, which does display Chinese, but any English text appears in the same font and it’s not a great looking font for Latin characters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Using Sim Sum by default is not an option because of the appearance of the Latin text and also we support many other languages, including Greek and Arabic, so we really need to be able to specify the font based on the language selected for the report. It’s quite possible in our system for a report to contain any number of different languages in a multi-national or multicultural scenario.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>I’ve told the client I don’t think there is a way of being able to support ad hoc language changes within the document this way, but I thought I would throw it out there in case there’s something XEP can do that I don’t know about. Any suggestions gratefully accepted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>!DSPAM:87,50bd5dd263737492011627! <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>