Word : at least the Cantonese Heritage worked!
Onenote : Canto Large JP worked! (but pdf file incredibly large, 50 pages → 90MB)
I installed the new V.2.6 to my “laptop first”.
So I generated 3 pdf for Canto Large JP, Canto JP, Canto Heritage using word → pdf
Cantonese Heritage worked!
the other two
I’m not sure what Win/Word or Win/OneNote is doing under the hood. Neither excessive file-size nor export blanks errors were present in Mac/Word:
The PDF is 33 pages using the Large Jyutping font, and comes to 17 Mb.
One workaround at this time is simply send your edited .docx to a Mac machine (like mine). It is then literally a 2-clicks, 5-sec “print to PDF” to get to a small, full-color PDF.
For what it’s worth, word processor’s Chinese typesetting are universally questionable (see deep dive here), and it is almost impossible to bring in parallel languages or under-set an English gloss beneath the Chinese (interweaving). One of the near-future work is integrating the .jyutping markup text into a proper typesetting engine, so that you upload a .doc/.txt, choose your styling, and it comes back with an exceptionally perfect PDF. ETA Spring 2025, but anything you can construct now will work then.
Thanks for your reply.
brain storming this is good.
I can minimize the pdf or I sent you the doc via email
Post again for record, I was using VFonts 2.6 to perform this conversion.
My previous pdf conversions failed simply because the parameters were not set right.
Word (window 11)
Attached is the best version, Cantonese Large JP was converted into Black colour.
I had to manually change the setting, “Standard publishing”, or else it wouldn’t show the QR code / Fonts / Photos. I also set the output as “Pdf compliant”.
I’ve installed Win 11 / Word (using VMware Fusion) and I am now able to play with this. What you need to do to keep the file-size down is to choose Print to PDF instead of export. The following screenshot shows the dramatic difference:
粵語字體列印 (20 kb) is obtained by Print to PDF, whereas 粵語字體 (50 Mb) comes from export. Neither are colored, but both are vector-based, as it remains crisp when zoomed in with no pixels showing.
Why doesn’t it shows the color? Probably because Microsoft updated their display engine but not their print engine, and is rendering the font outlines instead of SVG for OpenType-SVG fonts. It is clearly possible, as Win/VectorStyler exports shows… MS just need to get their stuff together. If you care about this you should submit a bug report to Microsoft.
