diff --git a/engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.pdf/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/emitter/pdf/PDFPage.java b/engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.pdf/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/emitter/pdf/PDFPage.java
index e258dbd9ffd..8345f04090c 100644
--- a/engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.pdf/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/emitter/pdf/PDFPage.java
+++ b/engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.pdf/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/emitter/pdf/PDFPage.java
@@ -462,6 +462,8 @@ private void drawText(String text, float textX, float textY, FontInfo fontInfo,
 			contentByte.setColorStroke(color);
 		}
 		BaseFont font = getBaseFont(fontInfo);
+		font.setIncludeCidSet(this.pageDevice.getPdfIncludeCidSet());
+
 		float fontSize = fontInfo.getFontSize();
 		try {
 			// PDF/A: if font not embeddable then use the configured PDF/A fallback font
diff --git a/engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.pdf/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/emitter/pdf/PDFPageDevice.java b/engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.pdf/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/emitter/pdf/PDFPageDevice.java
index 2aa012158a8..10625b1aa98 100644
--- a/engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.pdf/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/emitter/pdf/PDFPageDevice.java
+++ b/engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.pdf/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/emitter/pdf/PDFPageDevice.java
@@ -166,6 +166,8 @@ public class PDFPageDevice implements IPageDevice {
 
 	private final static String PDFA_FALLBACK_FONT = "PdfEmitter.PDFA.FallbackFont";
 
+	private final static String PDF_FONT_CID_SET = "PdfEmitter.IncludeCidSet";
+
 	protected Map<String, Expression> userProperties;
 
 	private char pdfVersion = '0';
@@ -178,6 +180,8 @@ public class PDFPageDevice implements IPageDevice {
 
 	private String defaultFontPdfA = null;
 
+	private boolean includeFontCidSet = true;
+
 	/**
 	 *
 	 * Constructor to define the PDF
@@ -207,6 +211,8 @@ public PDFPageDevice(OutputStream output, String title, String author, String su
 			this.setPdfConformance();
 			// PDF/A, set the default font of not embeddable fonts
 			this.setDefaultFontPdfA();
+			// PDF include font CID set stream
+			this.setPdfIncludeCidSet();
 
 			// PDF/A (A1A, A1B), avoid compression and transparency
 			if (!this.isPdfAFormat) {
@@ -867,4 +873,33 @@ public void setDefaultFontPdfA(String defaultFont) {
 	public String getDefaultFontPdfA() {
 		return this.defaultFontPdfA;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Set the including of a font CIDSet stream the document. When set to true, a
+	 * CIDSet stream will be included in the document. When set to false, no CIDSet
+	 * stream will be included.
+	 */
+	private void setPdfIncludeCidSet() {
+		if (this.userProperties != null && this.userProperties.containsKey(PDFPageDevice.PDF_FONT_CID_SET))
+			this.includeFontCidSet = Boolean
+					.parseBoolean(this.userProperties.get(PDFPageDevice.PDF_FONT_CID_SET).toString());
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Set the including of a font CIDSet stream the document
+	 *
+	 * @param includeFontCidSet include CIDSet stream of a font to the document
+	 */
+	public void setPdfIncludeCidSet(Boolean includeFontCidSet) {
+		this.includeFontCidSet = includeFontCidSet;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Get the instruction to include CIDSet stream of fonts
+	 *
+	 * @return the CIDSet shall be included
+	 */
+	public boolean getPdfIncludeCidSet() {
+		return this.includeFontCidSet;
+	}
 }
diff --git a/engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.pdf/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/emitter/pdf/README.md b/engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.pdf/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/emitter/pdf/README.md
index 49b724b06a5..fa95b6e44fe 100644
--- a/engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.pdf/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/emitter/pdf/README.md
+++ b/engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.pdf/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/emitter/pdf/README.md
@@ -63,6 +63,17 @@ The following list get an overview of all supported user properties, the content
 	Values     	file name with full path or list of file names
 	Default    	empty (null)
 
+
+**PdfEmitter.IncludeCidSet**
+
+	Content    	include the CIDSet stream of a font into the document
+	Location   	report
+	Data type  	boolean
+	Values     	true, CIDSet will be included
+	           	false, CIDSet won't be included
+	Default    	true
+	Since       	4.17
+
 **PdfEmitter.PDFA.FallbackFont**
 
 	Content    	fall back font to create the pdf/a document correctly,