Re: WYSIWYG and WYSIWYS : heads up warning
Re: WYSIWYG and WYSIWYS : heads up warning
- Subject: Re: WYSIWYG and WYSIWYS : heads up warning
- From: Henrik Holmegaard <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 07:19:08 +0100
The issue of Unicode-support in application software was discussed on
the PrintingColor list.
Henk Gianotten forwarded a mail from Michael Everson to Quark,
inquiring about Unicode support in QuarkXPress 6.
Michael Everson is best described as playmaker for the Unicode group,
which includes (almost) the entire industry, see www.unicode.org.
Quark replied that QuarkXPress 6 has no Unicode support. Again, please
think twice about producing PDF,
(1) in application software which does not correctly map glyphs to
Unicode, and
(2) with font software which does not correctly map glyphs to Unicode.
The result is a non-searchable PDF. You may have fine typography, but
if the information in your PDF is published on the web or on CD, it
will be physically present as typographic outline shapes and virtually
absent as textual information.
PDF has in effect replaced PostScript, and PDF is self-evidently
useless without the Unicode-support which is written into the PDF
Specification itself.
It is one thing to snub International Color Consortium and another to
snub Unicode workflows. I wonder if the latter may prove the more
dubious mistake.
Thanks,
Henrik
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