[bug-pcl] Ghostpcl - characters outside of 7 bit ASCII range

[Stefan Kemper]

Brian,

We currently have poor support for pdf conversion of characters outside 
of the 7bit ascii range.  If you are not seeing the characters in the 
pdf file then the 1.40 release should help.  If you are wanting to 
select then cut/paste the text in acrobat then we currently don't have a 
solution for you. 

The two bugs are:

There are a few pcl drivers that generate downloaded fonts with 
sequential indexes for character names to correctly convert this we have 
to ocr the glyphs to determine the correct name.  

There is a font technology mismatch in the truetype format that pcl uses 
internally and the format that the pdf writer is expecting for unicode 
indexed fonts.  This has to be resolved to correctly write out character 
names so that all text can be selected.

The next release will not address either of these issues. 

Best Regards,
Stefan Kemper

Artifex Software Inc.


Bryan Tackaberry wrote:

> Dear Stefan,
>
>         First of all thank you for replying to my message posted on 
> the bug-pcl archives a few weeks back. I am now returning to this 
> problem and need clarification.
>
>         I am using ghostpcl (1.38p1) to convert PCL to PDF. This is 
> working fine except with 'foreign'  characters - by this I mean 
> characters like French é (e acute), â (a circumflex), è (e grave); 
> Spanish ç (c cedilla), Ñ (n tilde) and the German double s (ß). All 
> these characters are 'outside of 7 bit ASCII' range.
>
>         Please confirm that this is the know problem you mentioned.
>
>         Are there any ways to overcome or sidestep this problem?
>
>         Is this problem to be fixed in future updates?  If so, do we 
> have a date?
>
>         Any suggestions welcomed!!
>
>
> Many thanks, this is otherwise an excellent product
>
> Best Regards
>
> Bryan
>
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