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F1 is not a specific font name like "Arial" or "Times New Roman". Instead, it is a inside a PDF dictionary. In PDF syntax, you'll often see it like this:

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/F1 << /Type /Font /Subtype /CIDFontType2 /BaseFont /HeiseiMin-W3 /CIDSystemInfo << /Registry (Adobe) /Ordering (Japan1) /Supplement 5 >> /DW 1000 >>

: In many digital documents, CIDFont+F1 is a subsetted or poorly exported version of standard fonts such as Arial (Bold) or Times New Roman (Regular) . 2. Common Error Scenarios

Further reading: Adobe Technical Note #5014 – "CID-Keyed Font Technology Overview"; ISO 32000-2:2020 section 9.7.6 (CIDFonts).

But some software (especially older UNIX PostScript interpreters, or Adobe’s Adobe Normalizer ) introduced a fallback ordering called . What is the Normal ordering?