PDF Export does no look correct even though on screen does
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Basic latin text exports to PDF fine but diacritics and reordered characters in a cluster do not export to PDF cleanly.
In InDesign:
From exported PDF:
Further exploration indicates that the PDF export functionality of In Design 5.5 ssems to ignore any x or y adjustments made by IWaxGlyphsME::AddGlyphMEData(). If this is confrimed to be the case then this will make the ID5.5 PDF export useless for complex scripts, however EPS export works correctly and so may be a viable alternative. Also printing to a PDF printer may also work.
Trying to map all remaining glyphs to zero length glyph ranges in an attempt to describe a null character to glyph mapping works for display in ID. Make this null mapping point to the next glyph past range in the current cluster seems to improve matters quite a bit. Still not perfect though:
P.S. x & y offsets are still being ignored afaict
It's confirmed that we get good output to PDF by printing to a PDF printer (tested with Fox IT Pro, I expect it'd work just as well with Adobe'd PDF printer too). This gives a good enough solution to this issue to allow me to return to it at a later date.