Hello, I think a better place for this issue is the (ntg-)pdftex mailing list, therefore I have CCed the ntg-pdftex mailing list. On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:25:19AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
What exactly is the status of automatic ToUnicode CMap generation within pdfTeX? There is a very nebulous entry in the NEWS file (BTW, the versions in TeXLive's Build and Master tree differ), but the manual is completely silent about it...
Thanh knows all about it. :-) Did you read patch 580 (http://preview.tinyurl.com/38fjr9)?
I now did. Thanks to the pointer. How comes that this feature is neither mentioned in the NEWS file nor in the documentation?
It was presented by Han at EuroBachoTeX 2007: `Font-specific issues in pdfTeX' (I don't know whether slides exist on-line, via google I only found a non-existing pdf file, but at least google's html view was available.) Section "5. Support for ToUnicode map".
I consider this as *very bad*. Lack of documentation is inexcusable.
I think there are unsolved issues. Now there are two methods
for adding CMaps:
(a) \pdffontattr, package cmap
(b) \pdfgentounicode, glyphtounicode.tex
Both methods have its limitations, e.g. (b) only works for Type 1 fonts.
Thus you could need both methods to cover all fonts, but the methods
doesn't know each other, thus fonts can end up with two CMap tables.
Yours sincerely
Heiko