I don't know if it's any good, but TITUS[1] is a pan-unicode font free for non-commercial use. I don't know if that included embedding in a PDF or not. 1. http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/tituut.asp On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Mark Redar <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi All, > > We're having some fun with unicode characters in PDF generation. We have a > process that automatically generates a pdf from XML input. The tool stack > doesn't support multiple fonts for displaying different codepoints so we > need a good pan-unicode font to bundle with the pdfs. > > Currently, we use the DejaVu font family for creating the pdfs. This has > good coverage for latin & cyrillic characters but has no CJK > (chinese-japanese-korean) coverage. We've looked into licensing a > commercial fonts, but for web server use these require annual licensing > fees that are substantial (in the thousands of $). > A number of our source documents contain CJK characters and some > contributors have noticed the lack of support for these characters. > > Does anyone know of a good pan-unicode free font that includes CJK > codepoints that looks good? Gnu unifont has the coverage, but it is not the > best looking font. > > Barring that, we're thinking of rolling our own pan-unicode font. There > are good open source fonts for portions of the unicode character sets. > We're hoping to find some way to take a number of open source fonts and > combine them into one large pan-unicode font. > > Does anyone have experience with font authoring and merging different > fonts? > > It looks as though FontForge can merge fonts, but it's not clear how to > deal with overlapping codepoints in the merged fonts. > > Thanks, > > Mark > -- Bill Dueber Library Systems Programmer University of Michigan Library