[FOP-1238] Fix encoding in the PDF output when using custom fonts (ToUnicode table)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.5
• Component/s: renderer/pdf
• Environment: Operating System: other; Platform: Other
• External issue ID: 40467
• Assignee: fop-dev
• Reporter: Bertrand Delacretaz
• Created: 11/Sep/06 14:00
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:28
• Resolved: 01/Apr/12 13:53

Description

FOP does not currently generate a ToUnicode table in the output PDF, this must
be corrected to have correct encodings in PDF.

Without this, cut and paste from PDF is not correct, and search fails with
non-ASCII characters.

The current situation is correctly documented at
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/fonts.html, under "TrueType font metrics".

A patch has been provided (FOP-230 comment #9) but apparently the code comes
from the FOray project, see if they agree to donate this code.

Issue Links

• depends upon: FOP-1235 Improve handling of OpenType fonts
• duplicates: FOP-230 Text with embedded CID fonts not retrievable from pdf