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Modern readers (Chrome’s PDFium, Mozilla’s pdf.js) have updated how they substitute missing cidfontf3 fonts. The new algorithm looks at /CIDSystemInfo more strictly, preventing incorrect glyph substitution (e.g., using Korean fonts for Chinese text). (Provide authoritative references about CID fonts, CMap, PDF

Have you ever copied text from a PDF and gotten garbled characters? The culprit is often a missing /ToUnicode CMap in cidfontf4. Updated tools like pdftotext (Poppler 24.0+) can now reconstruct Unicode from CIDFonts without explicit CMaps by analyzing the /CIDToGIDMap.

Run the following command (Ghostscript 10.03+):

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
   -dCompatibilityLevel=1.7 \
   -sCIDFSubstPath=/path/to/fonts \
   -sCIDFSubstFont="NotoSansCJK-Regular" \
   -c "/CIDFontF1 /NotoSansCJK-Regular findfont definefont pop" \
   -f input.pdf -o output_fixed.pdf

Updated flag: -dPDFCIDSetSubstitution=true is now default. If you'd like, I can:

Use a tool like mutool info or pdf-parser.py:

mutool show pdf.pdf font

If you generate PDFs programmatically (iText, Prawn, PyPDF2, or Apache PDFBox), here is how to avoid creating broken CIDFontF1–F6 references.

The prefix cidfont distinguishes these resources from other font types (like simple F1 for Type 1 fonts). This explicit labeling prevents namespace collisions. When a parser sees cidfontf1, it immediately knows it is dealing with a composite, CID-keyed font requiring a /CIDSystemInfo dictionary.