Bug#178717: tetex-bin: pdftex/pdflatex fails to subset embedded CJK TrueType font

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Ken Shan <ken@digitas.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: Bug#178717: tetex-bin: pdftex/pdflatex fails to subset embedded CJK TrueType font
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:40:04 -0500

> On 2003-03-06T17:37:16+0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > Yes I have.  Perhaps some font package might be missing
> > but on my system it resulted as follows;
> > 
> > [...]
> > kpathsea: Running mktextfm bsmi05
> > mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input bsmi05
> > This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> > 
> > kpathsea: Running mktexmf bsmi05
> > ! I can't find file `bsmi05'.
> 
> Do you have the tfm-arphic-bsmi00lp package installed?  I do on my
> system, and it seems to contain the TFM file that TeX is trying to
> generate.

Yes it worked.  By the way, can you use Chinese characters in
\chapter or \section etc. ?

As you know well, it is easy to use any fonts inside TeX
itself (it is enough to provide TFM files, basically) but 
it is completely different issue to use real fonts outside
TeX itself, like previewing or printing.

PDF is, perhaps, outside TeX itself because PDF files
generated by pdflatex contains real fonts.

As far as I can understand, your file uses cjk-latex macros
for Chinese fonts (which are, in a sense, outside pdflatex)
so I suspect subsetting could fail despite the following
documentation you cited.

> for instance, page 15 of pdftexman.pdf.gz states that "in general
> this [encoding] option is highly preferred and is required when
> subsetting a TrueType font", and the encoding is indeed specified in
> /etc/texmf/dvips/arphic.map (cjk-latex package).

Further, the above said "required" but not "sufficient".

I have an impression you ask too much to pdflatex, this 
could be wishlist but not an important bug yet.

Perhaps we, CJK-people, should wait a bit more for PDFTeX/LaTeX 
to start real CJK support.

Thanks for you help and sorry if I misunderstand the issue.

Best regards,		      2003.3.7(Fri)

-- 
 Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima