From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2008-02-08T10:24:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [PDF-Writer] Create Japanese PDF Documents


On Feb 7, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Reid Thompson wrote:

> Curt Sampson wrote:
>> While we're at it, does anybody have a set of instructions for  
>> setting
>> up PDF-writer on a Unix system to create PDFs that include Japanese
>> text? Last I looked, there was some font downloading and  
>> conversion that
>> needed to be done.
>> Please cc me on replies, as this list replaces my reply-to header.
>> cjs
> if you're unable to find an answer, Haru PDF library does this and  
> it has ruby bindings.  http://libharu.sourceforge.net/
>
If the fonts are not embed-able you might need to render them as  
vector art. The pdf will still be readable and scalable and printable  
and will then be totally platform agnostic. The downside would be  
that text would no longer be text.