[Devel] Re: strange cmap syntax

[Ken Lunde]

Werner,

Because these files use the same parsing code as genuine CMap files, they 
must appear as though they are genuine CMap files. The only reliable way 
to distinguish them is by name. The latest CMap files are attached.

-- Ken

cmap.txt
Description: Text document

On 2002.06.18, at 14:11, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > Acrobat ships with many CMap-like files. That is, they look like
> > CMap files, and even use CMap file syntax. They are not, however,
> > CMap files.  This particular one maps 90pv-RKSJ-H code points
> > (Shift-JIS) to Unicode.  In the third column, each four hex digits
> > represent a Unicode code point.  Thus 90pv-RKSJ-H 0x8591 maps to
> > U+0030 plus U+002E.
>
> How shall we know this?  The file starts with
>
>   %!PS-Adobe-3.0 Resource-CMap
>   %%DocumentNeededResources: ProcSet (CIDInit)
>   %%DocumentNeededResources: CMap (90pv-RKSJ-UCS2C)
>   %%IncludeResource: ProcSet (CIDInit)
>   %%IncludeResource: CMap (90pv-RKSJ-UCS2C)
>   %%BeginResource: CMap (90pv-RKSJ-UCS2)
>   %%Title: (90pv-RKSJ-UCS2)
>   %%Version: 4.002
>
> This makes it look like a valid CMap file.
>
> Where can I get a list of cmap-like files specific to Acrobat?
>
> To avoid future confusion, I strongly suggest to put a comment into
> the pseudo-cmap file.
>
>
>     Werner