[OS X TeX] Russian characters contained in included .pdf do not appear in compiled document

[Manuel]

On 19/12/2010, at 23:52, Alan Munn wrote:

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> On Dec 19, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Manuel wrote:
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>> On 19/12/2010, at 18:34, David Derbes wrote:
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>>> On Dec 19, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Alan Munn wrote:
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>>>> On Dec 19, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Manuel wrote:
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>>>>> On 19/12/2010, at 12:47, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
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>>>>>> Try to save the pdf 2010 in Preview first, or, if this doesn't help, by applying the Quartz Filter "... create generic PDFX-3 document" in addition. This will include all necessary fonts information in the pdf file.
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>>>>>> Claus
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>>>>> Claus, I just did as you suggested (I tried it twice), but - no cigar. The original displays the cyrillic characters but the numerated pages for some reason exclude them.
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>>>> Is it possible that the cyrillic characters were added as PDF annotations in some way (i.e. themselves added to an existing pdf document?)  pdfpages strips out certain kinds of annotations that can be added by Acrobat.  If the text could have been added that way, that might explain why it doesn't appear.
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>>>> (Unfortunately there would be no solution to this, if that is indeed the case.)
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>>>> Alan
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>>> If this is what is going on, then maybe the answer is to print the illustration to eps, open that up in Illustrator, and add your own cyrillic. If Manuel would like me to give that a try, he can send me the illustration and I'll see what I can do. No promises it will work, but it's worth a shot.
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>>> David Derbes
>>> loki at uchicago.edu
>>> University of Chicago Lab Schools
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>> No, the cyrillic characters are part of the original document. It's just the title of the song. The transliteration and the translation appear correctly after adding the headings (page numbers), something like:
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>> Коробушка
>> (Korobuschka)
>> Der Hausierer
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>> in the original, and only:
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>> (Korobuschka)
>> Der Hausierer
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>> afterwards. (By the way, that's the well known song sometimes reffered to as "the Tetris theme"). I assumed that adding headings on a pdf should not "reprocess" the original pdf and indeed nothing else is changed at all - words, music, layout stay all the same. I'm beginning to think that this is really odd, so I'm including here the original page and the changed one.
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> Well we know what's happened now, but not why: the original document has 6 fonts embedded in it; the file created by pdfpages has 5.  The difference is that the original document has CenturySchl-Bold embedded twice, but with different encodings: one is Roman and the other is Custom.  I suspect that pdflatex itself is 'cleaning up' the multiple embeddings incorrectly.  Here's a solution:
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> Process your file with xelatex instead of pdflatex; it doesn't have this problem on my test document.  (There may be other aspects of pdfpages that might not work with xelatex, but it won't harm to try.)
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> Alan
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...and: bang! - it worked. With XeLaTeX everything is fine again and my compiled document is as it should be. Thank you, Alan, and David, Claus, Alain, for your kind help.

Manuel