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There are no pan Unicode fonts. Last one I saw was for Unicode 2.0 There is a limit to the number of glyphs a font can contain. It is possible to create a subset of unicode and place it in a single font, but you need to be able to identify your current and future character requirements. But not sure why you need a single font, unless your xml to pdf conversion can't process stylesheets. Andrew On Saturday, 17 March 2012, 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 > -- Andrew Cunningham Senior Project Manager, Research and Development Vicnet State Library of Victoria Australia [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]