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Adobe PDF file created by a 3270 printer session

General information
Problems

General information

Adobe PDF format

Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) is the file format read by Adobe Reader version 5.0 or later.

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 Printer Setup (3270 Printer session, 5250 Printer session, 3270 Display session).

Adobe Asian font packs

The Adobe Asian font packs are font packages provided by Adobe to be used with Adobe Reader version 5.0 (or later) 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.

Locale: Default paper size:
US English and Canadian Letter
All other locales A4

Adobe PDF default fonts

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

Group: Languages: Default font:
European languages Greek, Latin 2, and Baltic languages CourierNewSMT
(See Note 1 below)
All other European languages Courier
DBCS languages Simplified Chinese STSongStd-Light-Acro
Traditional Chinese MSungStd-Light-Acro
Korean HYSMyeongJoStd-Medium-Acro
Japanese KozMinPro-Regular-Acro
Thai Thai Courier Thai
Bidirectional languages Arabic Typing Arabic
Hebrew Cumberland

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.

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 version 5.0 (or later).

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
The fix is to manually add the correct entries to the appropriate CMAP files. Follow these steps:
  1. Change to the CMap directory. Assuming that Adobe Acrobat was installed in the c:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0 directory, the fully qualified path of the CMap directory is 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.)

  5. Save the file and close it.


  6. Restart Adobe Reader version 5.0 (or later).
CMAP file names and CID code ranges:
  1. Chinese (Simplified)
    2.
    1. CMAP file:

      2. UniGB-UCS2-H

    2. CID code range:

      3. 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)
    3.
    1. CMAP file:

      2. UniCNS-UCS2-H

    2. CID code range:

      3. 1 begincidrange
      <00a6> <00a6> 14050 %% Broken Bar
      endcidrange

  3. Japanese
    4.
    1. CMAP file:

      2. UniJIS-UCS2-HW-H

    2. CID code range:

      3. 1 begincidrange
      <007e> <007e> 100 %% Tilde
      endcidrange

  4. Korean
    5.
    1. CMAP file:

      2. UniKS-UCS2-H

    2. CID code range:

      3. 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

In a Korean locale, you cannot use Adobe Reader 6.00 to open an Adobe PDF file created by ZipPrint

In a Korean locale, if you use the ZipPrint function and you configure the printer to send the ZipPrint output to an Adobe PDF file, then you cannot open the Adobe PDF file using the default installation of Adobe Reader version 6.00.

To fix this problem, do one of the following actions:

Adobe Reader version 5.1 and Adobe Reader version 6.02 or higher do not have this problem.