Failure to use non-embedded CIDFont in PDF

[Weijia5EAF]

This is a question regarding PDF language. I do not know where to post it, so I will do it here.

In order to test how the output string will be handled with CID Fonts, I made the following minimal example.

%PDF-1.4
1 0 obj
<<  /Type /Catalog
    /Outlines 2 0 R
    /Pages 3 0 R
>>
endobj

2 0 obj
<<  /Type Outlines
    /Count 0
>>
endobj

3 0 obj
<<  /Type /Pages
    /Kids [4 0 R]
    /Count 1
>>
endobj

4 0 obj
<<  /Type /Page
    /Parent 3 0 R
    /MediaBox [0 0 612 792]
    /Contents 5 0 R
    /Resources  <<  /Procset 6 0 R
                    /Font << /NotoSerifCJKjp-Regular-Identity-H 7 0 R >>
                >>
>>
endobj

5 0 obj
<< /Length 69 >>
stream
BT /NotoSerifCJKjp-Regular-Identity-H 72 Tf 100 100 Td (12\\\() Tj ET
endstream
endobj

6 0 obj
[/PDF /Text]
endobj

7 0 obj
<<  /Type /Font
    /Subtype /Type0
    /BaseFont /NotoSerifCJKjp-Regular-Identity-H
    /Encoding /Identity-H
    /DescendantFonts [8 0 R]
>>
endobj

8 0 obj
<<  /Type /Font
    /Subtype CIDFontType0
    /BaseFont /NotoSerifCJKjp-Regular
    /CIDSystemInfo  <<  /Registry (Adobe)
                        /Ordering (Identity)
                        /Supplement 0
                    >>
    /FontDescriptor 9 0 R
>>
endobj

9 0 obj
<<  /Type /FontDescriptor
    /FontName /NotoSerifCJKjp
    /Flags 6
    /FontBBox [-100 -200 3000 880]
    /CapHeight 700
    /Ascent 880
    /Descent 200
>>
endobj

xref
0 10
0000000000 65535 f
0000000009 00000 n
0000000084 00000 n
0000000135 00000 n
0000000202 00000 n
0000000430 00000 n
0000000550 00000 n
0000000579 00000 n
0000000738 00000 n
0000001011 00000 n

trailer
<<  /Size 10
    /Root 1 0 R
>>
startxref
1186
%%EOF

However, when the PDF is opened with Astril on Ubuntu, the shown text is still "12\(", instead of two (or three?) Chinese characters as I expected a CIDFont would do.

[Dov Isaacs]

This is absolutely not an issue of PostScript and this is not the community to post this in.

Moving this to the Acrobat community. Although that is a product-based community, it is at least associated with PDF and not PostScript.

[Weijia5EAF]

If it is the case, then please delete this post. I have already posed the same question on Acrobat community.

[Weijia5EAF]

Just got the correct output with an embedded font that gave me the correct result. Now the hard task goes into writing a program that subsets the font.

Also, I am curious about how PDF language differentiate a two-byte sequence that starts with 0x29 (which is the ascii code for right parenthesis). For example, If I want to output CID 10528 with Identity-H (which would be 0x29 0x20), how does the parser recognize it as part of the string rather than the end of it?