Hello,
I'm writing an application to create a PDF file for our own internal use. The basics are already done, now I'm working on font support. The fonts are all True Type-flavor Open Type fonts, with Unicode character set (although no Japanese, Chinese or Korean is involved, only Latin typography but with accented letters, ligatures, typographic alternatives, so broader than the standard ANSI range).
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As I read the PDF specs cover to cover, it seems that there simply is no simple and acceptable solution for embedding these kinds of fonts. I could chop them up into different AAAAAA+named chunks, keeping track of which of my original Unicode character went where, and all that extra work. Is this really so? Basically, what I would like to do is to embed the whole font as it is (PDF size it not an issue here, subsetting to the actually used character set is not important at all), and to use it. CID and ToUnicode doesn't seem to offer any solution to me, either, I'm afraid; at least, all test PDFs I created from various applications trying to mimic my own requirements seemed to be forced to remap and slice up the fonts, anyway.