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Chapter 5: Font Handling
5.6 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Fonts
5.6.1 Standard CJK Fonts
Acrobat supports various standard fonts for CJK text. These fonts are supplied with the
Acrobat installation (or the Asian FontPack), and therefore don’t have to be embedded
in the PDF file. These fonts contain all characters required for common encodings, and
support both horizontal and vertical writing modes. The standard fonts are listed in Ta-
ble 5.2 along with applicable CMaps (see Section 4.5, »Encodings for Chinese, Japanese,
and Korean Text«, page 85, for more details on CJK CMaps).
Note Acrobat’s standard CJK fonts do not support bold and italic variations. However, these can be
simulated with the artificial font style feature (see Section 5.5.3, »Text Variations«, page 114).
Table 5.2 Acrobat’s standard fonts and CMaps (encodings) for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean text
locale
font name
sample
supported CMaps (encodings)
Simplified
Chinese
STSong-Light
1
STSongStd-Light-Acro
2
AdobeSongStd-Light-Acro
3
AdobeSongStd-Light
6
1. Available in Acrobat 4; Acrobat 5 and 6 will substitute these with different fonts.
2. Available in Acrobat 5 only
3. Available in Acrobat 6 only
GB-EUC-H, GB-EUC-V, GBpc-EUC-H, GBpc-EUC-V,
GBK-EUC-H, GBK-EUC-V, GBKp-EUC-H
4
, GBKp-EUC-
V
2
, GBK2K-H
2
, GBK2K-V
2
, UniGB-UCS2-H, UniGB-
UCS2-V, UniGB-UTF16-H
5
, UniGB-UTF16-V
5
4. Only available when generating PDF 1.4 or above
5. Only available when generating PDF 1.5 or above
Traditional
Chinese
MHei-Medium
1
MSung-Light
1
MSungStd-Light-Acro
2
AdobeMingStd-Light-Acro
3
AdobeMingStd-Light
6
B5pc-H, B5pc-V, HKscs-B5-H
4
, HKscs-B5-V
4
, ETen-B5-
H, ETen-B5-V, ETenms-B5-H, ETenms-B5-V, CNS-
EUC-H, CNS-EUC-V, UniCNS-UCS2-H, UniCNS-UCS2-
V, UniCNS-UTF16-H
5
, UniCNS-UTF16-V
5
Japanese
HeiseiKakuGo-W5
1
HeiseiMin-W3
1
KozMinPro-Regular-Acro
2, 7
KozGoPro-Medium-Acro
3, 7
KozGoPro-Medium
6
KozMinProVI-Regular
6
6. Only available when generating PDF 1.6 or above
83pv-RKSJ-H, 90ms-RKSJ-H, 90ms-RKSJ-V, 90msp-
RKSJ-H, 90msp-RKSJ-V, 90pv-RKSJ-H, Add-RKSJ-H,
Add-RKSJ-V, EUC-H, EUC-V, Ext-RKSJ-H, Ext-RKSJ-V,
H, V, UniJIS-UCS2-H, UniJIS-UCS2-V, UniJIS-UCS2-
HW-H
7
, UniJIS-UCS2-HW-V
7
, UniJIS-UTF16-H
5
, Un-
iJIS-UTF16-V
5
7. The HW CMaps are not allowed for the KozMinPro-Regular-Acro and KozGoPro-Medium-Acro fonts because these fonts contain only
proportional ASCII characters, but not any halfwidth forms.
Korean
HYGoThic-Medium
1
HYSMyeongJo-Medium
1
HYSMyeongJoStd-Medium-Acro
2
AdobeMyungjoStd-Medium-Acro
3
AdobeMyungjoStd-Medium
6
KSC-EUC-H, KSC-EUC-V, KSCms-UHC-H, KSCms-
UHC-V, KSCms-UHC-HW-H, KSCms-UHC-HW-V,
KSCpc-EUC-H, UniKS-UCS2-H, UniKS-UCS2-V, Un-
iKS-UTF16-H
5
, UniKS-UTF16-V
5