Cidfontf1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 Updated -
| Tag | Common role (historical/typical) | |-----|----------------------------------| | F1 | Primary body text font (often regular weight) | | F2 | Secondary text or bold variant | | F3 | Italic or light variant | | F4 | Heading font | | F5 | Monospaced or special-use font | | F6 | Fallback or rarely used font |
Older PDFs often used "base 14" CIDFonts common to Acrobat. The updated standard requires that for cidfontf1 through cidfontf6 , the font program ( /FontDescriptor → /FontFile3 ) must be fully embedded, not just referenced. This improves portability across devices. cidfontf1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6 updated
: These typically represent different weights or styles of the same font (e.g., F1 might be Arial Bold, while F2 is Arial Regular). CID (Character Identifier) : These typically represent different weights or styles
Would you like a downloadable cheat sheet or a sample PDF that demonstrates F1–F6 mapping to real CIDFonts? It was elegant and simple, with lines that
Emilia thought for a moment, then wrote, "The sunsets in Ashwood are a gentle reminder of the beauty that can be found in the end of each day." As she spoke the words aloud, the symbols on the tree began to glow, and the CIDFontF1 appeared in her mind's eye. It was elegant and simple, with lines that flowed like the gentle streams of Ashwood.
Sometimes, a system does not have the specific font requested by a document. It uses a "fallback" map.