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This page offers an index of technical font documentation.

Note: For technical notes about Adobe® Acrobat® and Adobe PDF font topics, such as ToUnicode tables and Widths-only fonts, see Advanced Acrobat/PDF technical documentation.

Documentation is available in the following areas:

Specifications

  1. Type 1 Font Format Supplement #5015/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file  (PDF, 225k) (supersedes #5047 and #5086) 5/15/94
  2. Adobe Font Metrics File Format Specificationt #5004 /etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 238k) Version 4.1 10/9/97
  3. Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) Specification #5005 /etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 84k) Version 2.2 3/31/92
  4. Adobe Binary Screen Font Files Specification #5006 /etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 41k) Version 2.0 3/31/92
  5. The Type 42 Font Format Specification #5012/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 159k) 7/31/98
  6. Adobe Standard Cyrillic Font Specification #5013 /etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 336k) 2/18/98
  7. Sonata® Font Design Specification #5045 /etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 40k) 3/31/92
  8. The Compact Font Format Specification #5176 /etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 510k) 12/04/03
  9. The Type 2 Charstring Format #5177 /etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 194k) 3/16/00
  10. CID-Keyed sfnt Font File Format for the Macintosh, version 2.0 #5180 /etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 166k) 2/12/97

General font issues

  1. Macintosh FOND Resources #0091/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file  (PDF, 106k) 3/31/92
  2. Supporting Downloadable PostScript® Language Fonts #5040/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 87k) 3/31/92
  3. The StemSnap Hint Operator for Type 1 Font Programs #5049/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 32k) 3/31/92
  4. Supporting Fonts in the PostScript Language Environment #5075/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file  (PDF, 125k) 3/31/92
  5. Font Naming Issues #5088/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file  (PDF, 182k)
  6. Glyph Naming #5098 12/17/98 Superseded - see Unicode and Glyph Names
  7. Adobe Font Name Reference Table #5090/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file  (PDF, 469k) 1/29/98
  8. Designing Multiple Master Typefaces #5091/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file  (PDF, 3.3M) 9/7/95
  9. Bar Code Font Vendor List #5096/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file  (PDF, 27k) 9/25/98
  10. PostScript 3 Core Font Set Overview #5609 /etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 30k) 10/9/97
  11. Font Embedding Guidelines /etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 262k)

CJK /CID-keyed fonts

  1. Adobe CMap and CID Font Files Specification #5014/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 530k) 10/08/96 Version 1.0
  2. The Adobe-Japan1-6 Character Collection #5078/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 10.3M) 2/15/08
  3. The Adobe-GB1-5 Character Collection #5079/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 15.2M) 1/24/12

Describes the Adobe-GB1-5 character collection that supports the Chinese GB 2312-80, GB 1988-89, GB/T 12345-90, GB 13000.1-93, and GB 18030-2005 character set standards, along with the GB 18030-2005 "Yi" regional script. It is for Simplified Chinese implementations.

  1. The Adobe-CNS1-6 Character Collection #5080/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 9.5M) 1/12/12

Describes the Adobe-CNS1-6 character collection that supports the Big Five, CNS 11643-1992 (Planes 1 and 2 only), and Hong Kong SCS-2008 character set standards. It is for Traditional Chinese implementations.

  1. CID-Keyed Font Technology Overview #5092/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file  (PDF, 111k) 9/12/94
  2. The Adobe-Korea1-2 Character Collection #5093/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 6.8M) 1/12/12

Explains the character sets and encodings supported by the various Character Collections and CMap files provided by Adobe.

  1. Adobe CJK Character Collections and CMaps for CID-Keyed Fonts #5094/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file  (PDF, 579k) 2/28/07

Explains the character sets and encodings supported by the various Character Collections and CMap files provided by Adobe.

  1. Adobe-Japan2-0 Character Collection for CID-Keyed Fonts #5097/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 2.7M) 5/27/03

Provides support for the JIS X 0212-1990 character set standard.

  1. Building CMap Files for CID-Keyed Fonts #5099/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file PDF, 276k) 10/14/98
  2. CID-Keyed Font Installation for PostScript File Systems #5174/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 37k) 8/96

Describes how to install CID-keyed fonts and the CID Support Library (CSL) files into PostScript language file systems.

  1. CID-Keyed Font Installation for ATM™ Software #5175/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 61k) 3/18/98

Describes how to install CID-keyed fonts for use with ATM software for both Macintosh and Windows.

  1. Building PFM Files for PostScript-Language CJK Fonts #5178/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 140k) 1/10/97

Explains how to build Printer Font Metrics (PFM) files for PostScript language CJK fonts (both OCF and CID-keyed). This document is not a file format specification (which is available from Microsoft), and it does not specifically address building PFM files for Roman fonts.

  1. CID-Keyed sfnt Font File Format for the Macintosh, version 2.0 #5180/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 166k) 12/15/97
  2. Application Support for PostScript CJK Fonts #5640/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 172k) 12/15/97
  3. Enabling PDF Font Embedding for CID-Keyed Fonts #5641/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 47k) 7/07/98
  4. SING Glyphlet Production: Tips, Tricks & Techniques #5148/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 633k) 8/02/06
  5. OpenType-CID/CFF CJK Fonts: 'name' Table Tutorial #5149/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 156k) 08/05/2010
  6. Special-Purpose OpenType Japanese Font Tutorial: Kazuraki #5901/etc/pagetables/link_icon/pdf/jcr:content/image/file (PDF, 2.9M) 05/10/2010
  7. Building JIS2004-Savvy OpenType Fonts (TAR, 3MB) 10/31/07

PDF core font information

Font Metrics for PDF Core 14 Fonts

  1. Mac (SIT/HQX: 175k)
  2. Win (ZIP: 125k)
  3. Unix (TAR: 640k)

CMaps for PDF CJK Fonts

  1. Chinese Traditional (ZIP: 372k)
  2. Japanese (ZIP: 228k)
  3. Korean (ZIP: 252k)
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