Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 22919
Chinese characters are not shown in PDF files on palm
Last modified: 2013-07-30 02:15:53 UTC
followup to issue 22452: now that the PDF files produce by OOo can be converted for use in PDF chinese characters do not display properly.
Sample docs are attached to issue 22452. Now i need to get my hands on a palm.
Christof suggested that perhaps more information can be gotten at http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/main.html which points to Adobe's support forums.
For information : In a PDF with CKJ, sometimes you need to download language pack for Chinese Traditional font, Chinese simplified font, Korean font, Japanese font.
Because of limited resources we have decided to set this task to OOo2.0. It isn't a general problem, because this problem doesn't occure in a desktop version of the Acrobat Reader.
Because of limited resources this task have to re-targeted to target 'OOo Later'. If somebody can be found, who can implement this task, it can be re-targeted to OOo 2.0.
Just some information for people who have similiar problem, changing the font you are using might be a good workaround. I know Acrobat need an extra package to display Chinese character but such packages are not required if you use one of the font I recommened (I tried both on English-only adobe reader and looks fine!) I recommend ShanHeiSun <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fCJKUnifonts> and Ming <http://www.info.gov.hk/digital21/eng/hkscs/hkscs_iso.html>. Both are free to use. Ming is governmental font from HongKong, the other one is something like GPL. Both fonts I used many years with OpenOffice (and also fine with PDF export) The advantage of the two fonts are for their coverage. They conver really a lot of Chinese characters, the top coverage Chinese fonts that can be obtained for free. The problem with character coverage is that, when you found some Chinese character is missing in one font, it is usually too late (difficult to change the whole document and also past documents' font). So better choose wisely in the begning. I used to use other fonts (like arphicfonts) and now I fall back to only use the two (Mostly I use UniFont/ShangHeiSun, sometimes I use Ming).
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