CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

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While printer-resident fonts have historically been in a variety of formats, such as OCF

and CID, a PDF-based workow necessarily entails the use of OpenType fonts in order to

better guarantee cross-platform use by authoring applications. In case it is not painfully

obvious, one of the greatest advantages of a PDF-based workow is that it better guaran-

tees that the fonts used to author documents are the same as what are used to print them,

because they are the same fonts. e Japanese market is well ahead of the curve in this

transition, with approximately 50% of printing jobs being submitted as PDF les. is is

due to the broad extent to which OpenType fonts are used in that market. Other markets

that have traditionally depended on printer-resident fonts, such as China, Taiwan, and

Korea, are expected to follow this trend.

Authoring PDF Documents

PDF les can be created in a number of ways, and several options with regard to CJKV

font embedding are made available in Adobe Acrobat version 4.0 and later. Adobe Sys-

tems’ Technical Note #5641, Enabling PDF Font Embedding for CID-Keyed Fonts, illus-

trated to developers how they may enable their CID-keyed fonts, to include derivative

formats such as sfnt-CID fonts, for embedding in PDF.

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PDF les typically begin their life as documents created by using standard word-

processing or page-composition applica ...