../data/FontReporter.pdf PDFlib GmbH 2010-07-06T22:51:50+00:00 FrameMaker 7.0 2010-07-06T23:07:59+02:00 Acrobat Distiller 9.3.3 (Windows) PDFlib FontReporter PDFlib FontReporter Manual ABC FontReporter Version 1 . 4 A Plugin for analyzing fonts in PDF Copyright © 2005-2010 PDFlib GmbH . All rights reserved . PDFlib GmbH Franziska-Bilek-Weg 9 , 80339 München , Germany www . pdflib . com phone + 49 • 89 • 452 33 84-0 fax + 49 • 89 • 452 33 84-99 If you have questions check the PDFlib mailing list and archive at tech . groups . yahoo . com / group / pdflib Licensing contact : sales @ pdflib . com Support for commercial PDFlib licensees : support @ pdflib . com ( please include your license number ) Thank you for using PDFlib FontReporter , a free Acrobat plugin provided by PDFlib GmbH . PDFlib GmbH offers software for creating and processing PDF documents . Please visit our Web site to learn more about our products . 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Contents 1 Installing PDFlib FontReporter 5 2 Working with FontReporter 7 2 . 1 What can you do with FontReporter ? 7 2 . 2 Overview of PDF Font Formats 9 2 . 3 Contents of a Font Report 11 2 . 4 Investigate PDF Problems with FontReporter 14 2 . 5 Error Messages 15 A Revision History 17 Contents 3 1 Installing PDFlib FontReporter Requirements . The PDFlib FontReporter plugin works with Acrobat 7 / 8 / 9 Standard , Pro , and Pro Extended on Windows , and Acrobat 7 / 8 / 9 Standard and Professional on the Mac . The plugin doesn ’ t work with Adobe Reader . Installing FontReporter on Windows . All plugin-related files must be copied to the subdirectory » PDFlib FontReporter « in the Acrobat plugin folder . This is done automatically by the plugin installer , but can also be done manually . A typical location of the plugin folder is as follows : C :\ Program Files \ Adobe \ Acrobat 9 . 0 \ Acrobat \ plug _ ins \ PDFlib FontReporter Installing FontReporter on the Mac . The Acrobat plugin folder is not visible in the finder . Make sure that Acrobat is not running and follow these steps : > Extract the plugin files by double-clicking the disk image (. dmg ). > Locate the Acrobat application icon in the finder . It is usually located in a folder which has a name similar to the following : / Applications / Adobe Acrobat 9 . 0 Professional > Single-click on the Acrobat application icon and select File , Get Info . > In the window that pops up click the triangle next to Plug-ins . > Click Add ... and select the FontReporter folder from the folder which has been created in the first step . Note that this folder will not immediately show up in the list of plugins , but only when you open the info window next time . Multi-lingual Interface . FontReporter supports multiple languages in the user interface and generated font reports . Depending on the application language of Acrobat , FontReporter will choose its interface language automatically . Currently English and German interfaces are available . If Acrobat runs in any other language mode , Font- Reporter will use the English interface . Trouble-shooting . If the FontReporter plugin doesn ’ t seem to work , make sure that in Edit , Preferences , [ General ...], Startup the » Use only certified plug-ins « box is unchecked . Chapter 1 : Installing PDFlib FontReporter 5 6 Chapter 1 : Installing PDFlib FontReporter 2 Working with FontReporter 2 . 1 What can you do with FontReporter ? FontReporter is a useful tool if you are interested in fonts within PDF documents . It provides font- and encoding-related information which helps in a variety of situations : > analyze printing problems ( e . g . a particular font causes printing errors ) > investigate text extraction problems ( e . g . copying text from a PDF results in garbage ) > visualize Unicode mappings for a font > find flaws in the PDF creation workflow ( e . g . printer driver converted a PostScript Type 1 font to Type 3 ) > test whether ToUnicode mapping tables ( required for PDF / A-1a ) are present > identify logos and symbols which are represented as text in a PDF > learn which fonts are contained in a PDF , and which glyphs they contain ( e . g . the file size is too large because some fonts ended up in the PDF unintentionally ) > check font subsets to see which glyphs are contained in the subset > learn more about PDF font technology Using FontReporter is as easy as bringing up the menu Plug-Ins , PDFlib FontReporter ..., Create Font Report in Acrobat . This will create a font report for all pages of the current PDF document as a separate PDF . Two pages from typical font reports are shown in Figure 2 . 1 . Fig . 2 . 1 Sample font reports Chapter 2 : Working with FontReporter 7 A Revision History Revision history of this manual Date Changes July 07 , 2010 > Updated the manual to new front and back page graphics February 19 , 2009 > Minor changes for FontReporter 1 . 4 July 3 , 2008 > Minor changes for FontReporter 1 . 3 ( new : support for Acrobat 9 on Windows ) March 26 , 2007 > Minor changes for FontReporter 1 . 2 ( new : support for Acrobat 8 on Mac OS X ) January 30 , 2006 > Minor additions for FontReporter 1 . 1 February 14 , 2005 > Initial version for FontReporter 1 . 0 . 0 Known problems in this version . We are currently aware of the following minor problems : > In rare cases the glyphs of Type 3 fonts may appear too small or too large , or not on the baseline . > Although PDF Producer entries with non-Latin characters will be displayed properly in the bookmarks , they will appear garbled in the overview page . > Sometimes not all glyph names are shown for simple fonts with the predefined encodings WinAnsi or MacRoman . > Glyph names for built-in encodings are not shown , nor those for custom encodings which are based on a font ’ s built-in encoding . > Unicode values will not be shown for CID fonts with standard CJK character collections and simple fonts with the predefined encodings WinAnsi or MacRoman . However , since these are fixed mappings no document-specific information is lost . A Revision History 17 ABC PDFlib GmbH Franziska-Bilek-Weg 9 80339 München , Germany www . pdflib . com phone + 49 • 89 • 452 33 84-0 fax + 49 • 89 • 452 33 84-99 If you have questions check the PDFlib mailing list and archive at tech . groups . yahoo . com / group / pdflib Licensing contact sales @ pdflib . com Support support @ pdflib . com ( please include your license number )