Acroread 8.1.2 cannot display some Japanese documents

Question

For details and a test .pdf file see:
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=376856
acroread 8.1.2 cannot display some Japanese documents although
the Japanese font package and the CMaps are installed.
Checking which fonts are used in the testfile ~RubiJapanese.pdf~:
mfabian@magellan:~/test-texts/pdf/japanese$ pdffonts RubiJapanese.pdf
name type emb sub uni object ID
MS-Mincho CID TrueType no no no 10 0
Arial-Black TrueType no no no 14 0
Arial-BlackItalic TrueType no no no 15 0
mfabian@magellan:~/test-texts/pdf/japanese$
I.e., this document uses the ~MS-Mincho~ font which comes with
Microsoft Windows. It is not embedded, therefore Acroread has to
search for it on the system and if it cannot find it it should replace
it with a fallback Japanese font.
I have this font installed on the Machine where I am testing but
acroread fails to use it, complains about missing CJK support
(which is not true) and displays only dots instead of Japanese
characters.
You can get the test document from the above mentioned
bugreport, it is attached to comment #1:
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=376856#c1

Answer 1

Neha,
Thanks for the response.
We are running acroread headlessly since it is on a remote server that we access via telnet. Without an XServer session, I can't tell whether acroread is able to read and display the PDF files normally. However, we can view the PDFs with Adobe Reader 8.1.2 on Windows and the acroread -toPostScript command-line that we are using does work properly with other PDFs.
I will email you a copy of a problematic PDF shortly.
Regards,
Steven Dickson