SnapshotToPDF and chinese fonts

[mississippigroover]

I am using Stephan Lebans SnapshotToPDF which is extremely good.

It is converted into Acc97 and included in an Acc97 application.

I have someone who has started entering chinese characters with the
application installed on Chinese Windows.

When they run an Access report the chinese characters render fine.

When they print to PDF entered using SnapShotToPDF the fields with
chinese characters are blank but all the other non chinese character
fields are fine.

If we create a snapshot .snp of the report the chinese characters
render OK, though there is a slight spacing issue.

If we send the report to Adobe Distiller then the chinese characters
render fine.

My question is whether SnapshotToPDF can support CJK fonts.

Many thanks

 

[Stephen Lebans]

CJK fonts are supported but not in conjunction with Type 1 fonts.

Copied from the DynaForms Web site FAQ:

Which font formats are supported?

DynaPDF supports TrueType, TrueType Collection, OpenType, and Type1
fonts with PFM or AFM metric files. CJK character sets are not supported in
combination with Type1 fonts.



What is Font Subsetting?

Most TrueType and OpenType fonts are too large if they were to
be entirely embedded in an output PDF file. Most of the available characters
of a font are normally not used, so that there is no need to embed them. The
process of embedding only those characters required is called font
subsetting.

This technique reduces the file size significantly and also
enables the usage of very large CJK fonts which often require more than 20
MB disk space. A font subset is very small, depending on the number of used
characters, only a few KB disk space are required.





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HTH
Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
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[mississippigroover]

Just for the record, the reason we were trying to output to pdf was
because outputting the Access report to .rtf using Office Links failed
with the error "Invalid procedure call or argument".

Stephen thanks for your earlier reply.