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====== CMap ====== | ====== CMap ====== | ||
- | CMaps(([[https:// | + | CMaps(([[https:// |
CMaps provide a very general mechanism which can describe any mappings, including unicode which was developed later. Input codes of variable length (1, 2, 3 or more bytes) can be mapped to characters. | CMaps provide a very general mechanism which can describe any mappings, including unicode which was developed later. Input codes of variable length (1, 2, 3 or more bytes) can be mapped to characters. | ||
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* the mappings are ordered. This is not strictly prescribed, but recommended by the specifications. | * the mappings are ordered. This is not strictly prescribed, but recommended by the specifications. | ||
- | ==== Handling malformed CMaps ==== | ||
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- | Sometimes CMaps define mappings which are not covered by the codespace ranges. This can be seen very often in the wild. These illegal mappings are collected into the ''# | ||
===== Monster from the wild ===== | ===== Monster from the wild ===== | ||
- | ==== Mappings outside the codespace | + | CMaps are not well defined. Therefore, there are some interesting variations of them in the wild. Here is a small selection of some issues. |
+ | ==== Codespace problems | ||
- | single byte mappings in a double byte codespace | + | === Wrong code length === |
- | ==== Wrong PostScript ==== | + | <code postscript> |
+ | %... | ||
+ | 1 begincodespacerange | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | endcodespacerange | ||
+ | 27 beginbfchar | ||
+ | <20> < | ||
+ | <2E> < | ||
+ | <43> < | ||
+ | <44> < | ||
+ | <45> < | ||
+ | %... | ||
+ | </ | ||
- | using /find instead of / | + | Here are single byte mappings in a double byte codespace which is not correct according to the documentation. |
+ | This can be seen often. These illegal mappings are collected into the ''# | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Mappings outside the codespace === | ||
+ | |||
+ | <code postscript> | ||
+ | %... | ||
+ | 1 begincodespacerange | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | endcodespacerange | ||
+ | 11 beginbfchar | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | %... | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Here, only the first mapping matches the code space. All others fall outside of it, because the second byte has to be between <00> and <04>. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Wrong PostScript ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | On one occasion, I saw a CMap where the PostScript used a non-existing operator (''/ | ||
==== Prevent copying ==== | ==== Prevent copying ==== | ||
+ | <code postscript> | ||
+ | %... | ||
+ | 1 begincodespacerange | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | endcodespacerange | ||
+ | 100 beginbfchar | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | %... | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | %... | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Here, all codes map to the same character (Substitute character, Ctrl-Z) to prevent extracting the text. Interesting is also the ordering by the second byte, which forced me to redesign the object structure to avoid exponential processing time. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Seen in [[https:// | ||
==== Char to string mapping ==== | ==== Char to string mapping ==== | ||
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</ | </ | ||
- | It looks as if two codes (<24> and <50>) are mapped to a string of 2-byte characters. | + | Two codes (<24> and <50>) are mapped to a string of 2-byte characters. |
+ | |||
+ | Seen in a PDF with the '' |