[LINUX5250] Re: font-encoding in scs2pdf

[Carey Evans <carey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Klement <klemscot@klements.com> writes:

> That's interesting.  So you're suggesting that we don't need to map the
> characters at all?  Just define the CCSID in the PDF itself?

Basically, yes.

> Is there a downside to this approach?

Downsides are that the PDF gets a little bigger including the encoding
information, and that the encodings need to get generated in the first
place.  I suppose there may be a few tools out there that expect the
text in a PDF to use an ASCII-compatible encoding, but Acrobat Reader,
xpdf and Ghostscript all work fine, including search, and copy and
paste.

On the plus side, the same encodings could be used by scs2ps, and
CCSIDs like 870, that use characters not in WinAnsiEncoding, will need
their own encodings defined in the PDF anyway.

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