44. Is there any way to make Hangul PDF files?
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This article is from the Hangul & Internet in Korea FAQ, by Jungshik Shin jshin@minerva.cis.yale.edu with numerous contributions by others.
44. Is there any way to make Hangul PDF files?
Yes, Kyonghang shinmun reported that Taekyoung
Computer at http://www.dkc.co.kr/ released
'DocuCom 2.1', Hangul PDF manipulating
tools(DocuMaker, DucuPlus, DocuDriver) in late
1997. Hangul PDF viewer(DocuReader) is available
free of charge while Hangul PDF suit(extractor and
editor) will be priced at 450k won. Evaluation
copy of Hangul PDF suit is available at their web
site. Moreover, the next version of Acrobat suit
will support Korean and Chinese.
SNI Korea also released Hangul PDF driver for
MS-Windows, SNI98. For more information, see
http://www.snikorea.co.kr/. SNI98 manual in PDF
(available on SNI Korea web site) has useful
information on generation of Hangul PDF files in
MS-Windows(using SNI98 or Adobe PDFWriter)
Adobe finally released Acrobat 4.0 suit which
support Korean and Chinese in addition to Western
European languages and Japanese supported in 3.0.
Now with Distiller and PDFWriter, you can produce
Korean PDF files. Font embedding feature is only
available in Distiller. Adobe also released Korean
font pack to use with free PDF viewer Acroread
4.0. [Contribution by Charles Tustison at
ctustison@briefcase.com.] Quite a lot of
information on using Korean(and Chinese and
Japanese) in PDF in general and in Acrobat in
particular is avaialbe at Adobe web site. Usenet
newsgroup han.comp.text and comp.text.pdf and
http://www.pdfzone.com are also good places to
seek advice and information.
According to jimsung@mail.worldtech.co.kr,
WorldTech plans to release a Korean equivalent of
Acrobat Capture Plugin, which extracts Hangul text
out of Hangul PDF files.
Moreover, as suggested by Choi, Jun Ho at
junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr, Ghostscript 5.0 or
later(you'd better get the newest 5.10) allows you
to convert PS files produced with Hangul LaTeX
(see Subject 11) to PDF files. Of course, in this
case you can't make use of such advanced features
of PDF as offered in PDF Writer of Adobe (e.g.
embedding hyperlinks in the document and fill-out
forms) Adding hyperlinks might be possible if you
install HyperTeX(PDF/hyperlink-related TeX
packages) or PDFLaTeX and related tools(DVIwares
and PS viewers modified to work with HyperTeX)
available at e-print archive(http://xxx.lanl.gov)
and CTAN.
Karnes Kim <kli@netian.com> put up an excellent
web page at
http://my.netian.com/~kli/karnes/library/tex/98ps.html
on generating Hangul PDF files using HLaTeX 0.9x
along with PDFLaTeX(and other two options).
Likewise, one can use Adobe Distiller to convert a
Hangul Postscript file (obtained by printing to a
file with PS printer selected in such programs as
Hangul MS-Word and HWP) to a PDF file. Park, Won
Ho(parkscom@spacecomm.co.kr) reported that he
succeeded with this method. Ghostscript can be
used for the same purpose as well.
Kim, Yong-Woon at qkim@pec.etri.re.kr conducted an
extensive test of converting to PDF PS files
generated from Hangul MS-Word and HWP with DocuCom
suit and Ghostscript 5.x. There are several
difference cases.
o Hangul MS-Word
o Hangul in PDF files generated with DocuMakeit
as a printer driver is not visible in Unix
acroread even font-embedding is turned on.
o PDF files converted(with DocuMaker) from PS
files generated by printing to file feature of
MS-Word have no such problem. Hangul text is
selectable and can be pasted with mouse in
Unix acroread.
o Ghostscript 5.10(ps2pdf) can also convert PS
files produced by Hangul MS-Word to PDF files.
Hangul is treated as text and
pastable/selectable in Unix acroread.
o HWP(Arae-ah Hangul)
o Hangul in PDF files generated with DocuMakeit
as a printer driver is displayed properly in
Unix acroread, but not selectable and pastable
as text.
o DocuMaker has no problem converting PS files
generated by printing to file feature of
HWP(it's much more cumbersome to print to a
file in HWP, but it's possible. Look up the
manual) to PDF files. Hangul in PDF files made
this way is shown well in Unix acroread.
o Ghostscript 5.10(ps2pdf) can convert PS files
from HWP to PDF files, but the same problem it
has with PDF files made with DocuMaker, namely
Hangul can't be selected and pastable as text.
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