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.
Character Encoding Problem
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Character Encoding Problem
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Re: Character Encoding Problem
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
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
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Re: Character Encoding Problem
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.
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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.
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Re: Character Encoding Problem
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
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
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Re: Character Encoding Problem
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.
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.
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Re: Character Encoding Problem
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
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.
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Stefan
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Re: Character Encoding Problem
Noted, but it'd be a possible issue for some.
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Re: Character Encoding Problem
Best regards
Paul O'Rorke
Tracker Support North America
http://www.tracker-software.com
Paul O'Rorke
Tracker Support North America
http://www.tracker-software.com