Cidfont F1 Normal Fixed Jun 2026

/CIDFont /F1 /Norm refers to a (Type 0) named /F1 with CMap name /Norm (normal orientation). When paired with a fixed-pitch design, it means all glyphs have the same advance width.

The term Normal comes from Adobe’s technology (part of PostScript 3 and PDF 1.3). The Normalizer converted arbitrary CIDFonts into a canonical form with: cidfont f1 normal fixed