Character Encoding Problem

[yuk fai lo]

The Chinese characters in the PDF files created by PDF-XChange do not seem to be encoded properly - They cannot be copied & pasted into other text editors/fields.

Any idea why...?

Enclosure is an example.

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hello yuk fai lo,

Please make sure to select the "embed extended font/characters info" check box in our printing drivers font preferences, and the PDFs created will have their text properly copyable.

Best,
Stefan

[yuk fai lo]

Cool.

Just asking, why wasn't this enabled by default...? A significant detrimental effect in other cases...? It'd be such a headache for Chinese, and I presume, Korean and Japanese users as well.

Cheers.

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hi yuk fai lo,

Because enabling this increases the size of the files generated, and for most non East-Asian scripts it is not always necessary.

We have a ticket on this issue already:
#1203: Drivers: automatically set "embed extended font/character info" for East Asian locales
So that for the proper locales this can be automatically enabled at install time.

Best,
Stefan

[yuk fai lo]

Noted.

However, is it possible for the software to detect if CJK exists in the document at run time instead of install time...? I believe not all people that handle CJK configure CJK as Windows' locale as well.

Cheers.

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hi yuk fai lo,

I am afraid that no - our drivers will "print" whatever the printing application passes to them - and can't on it's own detect whether the characters being passed to it are CJK or e.g. Latin Alphabet ones - so it can embed additional character info or not - but can't detect on it's own what type of characters it's actually including in a PDF file.

Best,
Stefan

[yuk fai lo]

Noted, but it'd be a possible issue for some.

Cheers.

[Paul - Tracker Supp]