On 2008/12/3, at 3:43 PM, bugzilla-daemon@pippin.metavore.com wrote:

http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2246

------- Comment #10 from joe.atzberger@liblime.com 2008-12-02 18:43 ------- After extensive review, I am more inclined to agree with Mason inasmuch as PDFs are limited to 3 default encodings: MacRomanEncoding, MacExpertEncoding, or WinAnsiEncoding. None of those cover as much Unicode as we need.

The (1236 page!) Adobe reference book that I'm checking says: "For character encodings that are not predefined, the PDF file must contain a stream that defines the CMap."

It looks like we would have to define a mapping for every non-basic- ASCII character that we might want to use. This "ToUnicode Mapping File Tutorial" might be useful to pursue this route: www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/5411.ToUnicode.pdf

I'm not sure how much of this prTTFont would encapsulate, but it does not look like fun though.

heya atz yeah, the more i look into this little "bug" the more bizarre the whole PDF-spec starts to look.. ;/ check out this thread as an example http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b52c35 i think the gist of it is that PDF has a half-assed handling of small subset of unicode, that works just a little bit, and is really hard to do. the short-term fix looks to be get the labels-print-pdf.pl to handle problem items, before the call to PDF::Reuse ?by trying strip/convert the detected unicode characters?