Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: language specific character in PDF output

[Togan Muftuoglu <toganm at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

* ABX; <abx@abx.art.pl> on 19 Dec, 2002 wrote:
> Is there anything I can do to get language specific character to be displayed
> correctly in PDF output using Adobe Reader on Windowses ?
>
> I use &lstrok; entity as second letter in my original name 'Wlodzimierz'. It
> is rendered (xsltproc + 1.58) in xhtml to '&#322;' and in fo to '&#x142' which
> seems of course the same. When I previewed html rendering it is displayed with
> correct character. When I created PDF using Fop and viewed that character with
> Adobe Reader 5.0 CE (CE means Central Europe so polish character should be
> supported). I have no problems with characters like 'J&eacute;r&ocirc;me' for
> example. I'm sure fonts on my computer has that letter installed and I'm sure
> I have no separated Helvetica installed. Any ideas?
It is Adobe limitation you have to embed the font that has the glyph for
the character. If you try XEP the result will be the same. Only with
PassiveTeX it works out of the box weird but true 
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Togan Muftuoglu