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CIDFont F1 is a font used in PostScript and PDF documents. It's a type of CID (Character ID) font, which is a font that uses a character ID to identify each glyph (character) in the font.

It consists of a CMap (Character Map), which maps character codes to CIDs, and a CIDFont resource , which contains the actual glyph shapes. cidfont f1 normal

This command is most commonly found in the section of a raw PostScript stream that is intended to be converted into a PDF. Developers writing custom PS-to-PDF converters often use this to ensure that the resulting PDF uses a specific font embedded or referenced by the system. CIDFont F1 is a font used in PostScript and PDF documents

I couldn’t find a specific article or standard reference titled in any major font documentation, PostScript/PDF specification, or CID-keyed font resources. This command is most commonly found in the

However, based on common patterns in (used in PDFs, PostScript, and Asian-language fonts), here’s what this phrase likely refers to:

%%BeginResource: cidfont (f1 normal) /cidfont /f1 /normal def %%EndResource

If you encounter an error related to cidfont f1 normal in a log file (e.g., from Distiller), it usually means: