F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 Install Exclusive - Cidfont F1
The names CIDFont F1 through F6 (often appearing as CIDFont+F1) are not actual font families you can download and install from the internet. They are temporary placeholder names generated by software when a PDF file fails to correctly embed the original fonts.
Note: SubfontID values differ based on the TTC (TrueType Collection). For Noto CJK TTC, order is: 0=Japan, 1=Korea, 2=TC, 3=SC. cidfont f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 install
The names CIDFont+F1 through F6 do not refer to actual fonts you can download and install from the internet. Instead, they are temporary names generated by software (like Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, or Word) when it fails to properly embed a font into a PDF. The names CIDFont F1 through F6 (often appearing
3. Install the Font Files
Copy each CIDFont to the chosen directory (example uses system GS fonts): Ghostscript (≥9
- Ghostscript (≥9.50) –
gscommand - FontForge – for inspecting CID-keyed fonts
- pdffonts (part of Poppler utilities) – to list fonts inside a PDF
- mkfontscale / mkfontdir (Linux) – to manage font paths
- Adobe Acrobat Pro – for manual font substitution
About CID fonts (F1–F6)
CID-keyed fonts are an Adobe extension for efficient handling of large character sets (especially CJK — Chinese, Japanese, Korean). In some PDF or PostScript contexts, fonts are referenced as CIDFont resources with names like F1, F2, … F6 (these are object names or font resource names, not the canonical font family names). Installing CID fonts typically means installing the underlying TTF/OpenType/CFF font files and ensuring the PDF/PostScript toolchain can locate and embed them.