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:
5/15/94
(supersedes #5047 and #5086)
October 9, 1997
Version 4.1
3/31/92
Version 2.2
3/31/92
Version 2.0
7/31/98
2/18/98
3/31/92
12/04/03
3/16/00
2/12/97
3/31/92
3/31/92
3/31/92
3/31/92
date
12/17/98
Superseded - see Unicode and Glyph Names
1/29/98
9/7/95
9/25/98
10/9/97
10/08/96
Version 1.0
2/15/08
2/28/07
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.
2/28/07
Describes the Adobe-CNS1-5 character collection that supports the Big Five, CNS 11643-1992 (Planes 1 and 2 only), and Hong Kong SCS-2004 character set standards. It is for Traditional Chinese implementations.
9/12/94
5/27/03
Explains the character sets and encodings supported by the various Character Collections and CMap files provided by Adobe.
2/28/07
Explains the character sets and encodings supported by the various Character Collections and CMap files provided by Adobe.
5/27/03
Provides support for the JIS X 0212-1990 character set standard.
10/14/98
8/96
Describes how to install CID-keyed fonts and the CID Support Library (CSL) files into PostScript language file systems.
3/18/98
Describes how to install CID-keyed fonts for use with ATM software for both Macintosh and Windows.
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.
12/15/97
12/15/97
7/07/98
8/02/06
09/08/05
03/06/09
10/31/07