pdf hebrew chars are GIBRISH

[shimi]

2011/9/12 Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir at gmail.com>

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> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> The CPA of our company gave me the salary in pdf.
>> It is done with SHIKLULIT LE HALONOT (שיקלולית לחלונות).
>> The header font is showing ok, but the font inside the form,
>> shows in GIBRISH.
>> It seems like a mismatch of font?!
>> I'm using evince.
>> I have culmus fonts installed.
>>
>> output of pdffonts:
>> kfir at goofy /tmp $ pdffonts 2011.08.pdf
>> name                                 type              emb sub uni object
>> ID
>> ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- ---
>> ---------
>> Arial                                CID TrueType      no  no  yes      6
>> 0
>> Arial,Bold                           CID TrueType      no  no  yes     10
>> 0
>> Miriam                               CID TrueType      no  no  yes     13
>> 0
>> David                                CID TrueType      no  no  yes     16
>> 0
>> David,Bold                           CID TrueType      no  no  yes     19
>> 0
>> MiriamFixed,Bold                     CID TrueType      no  no  yes     22
>> 0
>>
>> kfir at goofy /tmp $ pdfinfo !$
>> pdfinfo 2011.08.pdf
>> Creator:        pdfsam-console (Ver. 2.4.0e)
>> Producer:       iText 2.1.7 by 1T3XT
>> CreationDate:   Sun Sep 11 20:12:03 2011
>> ModDate:        Sun Sep 11 20:12:03 2011
>> Tagged:         no
>> Pages:          1
>> Encrypted:      no
>> Page size:      595.274 x 841.888 pts (A4)
>> File size:      25669 bytes
>> Optimized:      no
>> PDF version:    1.4
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kfir
>>
>
> When I create a docuement with LibreOffice, just for testing, and export it
> to pdf the font names look different:
> kfir at goofy /tmp $ pdffonts test.pdf
> name                                 type              emb sub uni object
> ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- ---
> ---------
> BAAAAA+DavidCLM-Medium               TrueType          yes yes yes      9
> 0
> kfir at goofy /tmp $ pdffonts test1.pdf
> name                                 type              emb sub uni object
> ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- ---
> ---------
> BAAAAA+ArialMT                       TrueType          yes yes yes      9
> 0
>
> Does the name counts?
>
>
Not sure (logic says that "yes, it should matter", as PDF should be
*identical* where ever it is displayed, and thus a similar name should not
cut it, unlike "font-family" in HTML...) - however - given your specific
example, you can see that the font itself has been embedded in the PDF, and
will thus always work. The same trick can be done by your CPA - if s/he will
save the PDF with the option to "embed" / "inline" the fonts, the PDF would
work anywhere, for everyone, on any device/OS, regardless of fonts... s/he
might want to do it in general (the price of course is larger PDFs, as they
contain the font data...)

-- Shimi
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