Adobe PDF file created by a 3270 printer session

General information

• Adobe PDF format
• Adobe Asian font packs
• Adobe PDF default paper sizes
• Adobe PDF default fonts

Adobe PDF format

Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) is the file format read by Adobe Reader 5.x.

A Host On-Demand 3270 Printer session can be configured to convert the 3270 host print stream to an Adobe PDF file instead of printing it on a printer. For more information see the help text for the Printer tab of a 3270 printer session profile.

Adobe Asian font packs

The Adobe Asian font packs are font packages provided by Adobe to be used with Adobe Reader 5.x in order to display characters from the Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, or Korean language. There is one font pack for each of the 4 languages. The font packs can be downloaded from the Adobe web site.

Adobe PDF default paper sizes

The following table shows the default paper sizes for all locales.

Adobe PDF default fonts

The following table shows the default fonts for all supported languages.

Note 1: CourierNewSMT is similar to the Courier New font available on Windows platforms. The Courier font did not contain all the necessary characters for Greek, Latin 2, and Baltic languages. Note: Windows 95 does not support Courier New.

Problems

In a 3270 Printer session with Adobe PDF output some characters are not displayed

Problem

On a Host On-Demand client with a DBCS locale, after the client has run a 3270 Printer session which has sent the print output to a file in Adobe PDF format, some characters are not displayed when the file is viewed with Adobe Reader 5.x.

For a list of which characters are not being displayed, see the section for each DBCS language in the list of CMAP file names and CID code ranges below.

The source of the problem is that some of the character mappings are incorrect in the CMAP files of the Adobe Asian font packs.

Fix

1. Change to the CMap directory. Assuming that Adobe Acrobat was installed in the directory
   
   c:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0


the fully qualified path of the CMap directory would be:

c:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Resource\CMap


2. Locate the CMAP file that needs to be changed. (See the list of CMAP file names and CID code ranges below.)



3. Open the specified file with an ASCII editor and search for the line that begins with:
   endcmap



4. Above the line that begins with endcmap, add the lines of text in the CID code range. (See the list of CMAP file names and CID code ranges below.)
• Add all the lines of text exactly as they are typed.
• For example, for Chinese (Simplified), you would add the 6 lines of text in the CID code range to the file UniGB-UCS2-H immediately before the line that begins with endcmap.


5. Save the file and close it.



6. Restart Adobe Reader 5.0.

CMAP file names and CID code ranges:

1. Chinese (Simplified)
1. CMAP file:

UniGB-UCS2-H

2. CID code range:

4 begincidrange
<00a3> <00a3> 169 %% Pound sign
<00ac> <00ac> 10014 %% Not sign
<00a6> <00a6> 10015 %% Broken Bar
<203e> <203e> 907 %% Overline
endcidrange


2. Chinese (Traditional)
1. CMAP file:

UniCNS-UCS2-H

2. CID code range:

1 begincidrange
<00a6> <00a6> 14050 %% Broken Bar
endcidrange


3. Japanese
1. CMAP file:

UniJIS-UCS2-HW-H

2. CID code range:

1 begincidrange
<007e> <007e> 100 %% Tilde
endcidrange


4. Korean
1. CMAP file:

UniKS-UCS2-H

2. CID code range:

5 begincidrange
<00a2> <00a2> 143 %% Cent
<20a9> <20a9> 8154 %% Won sign
<00ac> <00ac> 194 %% Not sign
<00a6> <00a6> 93 %% Broken Bar (remap to Vertical Bar)
<203e> <203e> 8188 %% Overline
endcidrange