Bob & Dina;
We were trying to embedd Japanes fonts (to make Japanes PDF docs readable
on PCs with English Win95 + English Acrobat-Reader) and gave up. Thanks for
Dina's solution and Bob's good summary.
My Japanese editor is visiting Japan- so I'm in the dark...

But I have 2 questions:
1. Do these Japanese PDF docs print reasonably by English Acrobat-Reader
under English Win95 on 300/600 DPI printers?
2. Currently we do not have a Japanese AdobePS Printer Driver installed on
our PC with Win95-J/MSWord97-J/Acrobat-J. The Acrobat 3.0J CDROM has under
Drivers folder both AdobePS 4.1J and AdobePS 4.2J.
Which one you used/recommend ? (our Japanese docs are text-only).

Thanks in advance
Zavdi_Lichtman@amat.com

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Subject: Japanese Font: PDF Solved
From: Bob Goldsby <BobG@WOODLAND.USNR.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:30:48 -0800

My thanks to those of you who quickly responded to my query, including Dina
Davidson, Steve Schwedland, Jonathan Bauer. I believe most of you saw the
suggested solutions so let me outline what we did that worked for us.

We needed a single Japanese word placed into a warning label which could be
sent to a vendor that makes our vinyl decals. While the one word was
sufficient, it was my hope to find a solution that would enable us to do
entire Japanese documents if that becomes necessary. (Toshi would like to
do
some translation work while he is here).

We could create a PDF files of the document which looked good but it was
dependent upon the computer's font system. When that PDF file was opened on
an English operating system we got an error message (mising font) and the
Japanese word was missing.

Dina Davidson suggested that we set the printer driver to download the
fonts
as bitmaps. After some experimentation we got that to work.

1.) Access the PS Printer Driver (with someone who can read Japanese)
and set it to download the fonts as bitmaps.
2.) Set that printer as the default printer.
3.) Open the application and appropriate file (we used FrameMakerJ).
4.) Print the file to the previously prepared PS Printer. Choose the
option to print to file (don't SAVE AS PDF!).
5.) Select the directory you wish the PS file to go to and the file name
(you may need to change .prn to .ps).
6.) When the PS file is created, load it into Acrobat Distiller.
Distiller creates the PDF file.
7.) Copy the resulting PDF to a diskette or network drive and open it on
an English OS computer.
8.) It should display the Japanese characters well. Whether they print
well is not yet known.

Thanks to all, especially Dina. I appreciate your help.

Merry CHRISTmas

Bob Goldsby
http://www.usnr.com/
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