cannot read/print japanese pdf files

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 14:37 +0900, Evan Monroig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a pdf file in Japanese, which I would like to print.
> 
> All the following programs fail to even display the font correctly on
> my screen: evince, gpdf, acroread (version 7)
> 
> xpdf displays the japanese font correctly, but when I print the file
> the characters are transformed to trash...
> 
> Does anyone have a solution to this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Evan
> 
Try converting the file to PostScript first then printing the resulting
file:
        pdf2ps file.pdf

The above command will convert "file.pdf" to "file.ps", after that try
printing the new file as you would normally.

Tell us what you get.
Ziyad.