diff --git a/crates/fonts/README.md b/crates/fonts/README.md
index c462c428d4..963ee889b9 100644
--- a/crates/fonts/README.md
+++ b/crates/fonts/README.md
@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ exact program preservation, Unicode/CID/GID mapping and full-face subset complet
 never exported. See [existing-text editing](../../docs/editing-existing-text.md).
 
 `pdf::embedded_sfnt_within` reconstructs a missing Unicode cmap for Identity-H TrueType
-subsets from the PDF's ToUnicode and CID-to-glyph maps. Only the in-memory editor copy changes;
+subsets from the PDF's ToUnicode and CID-to-glyph maps, and completes a THSarabunPSK subset's
+Latin-only one with them. Only the in-memory editor copy changes;
 the PDF's font program stays intact. `pdf::LegacyThaiFont` shapes verified THSarabunPSK
 positional glyphs into their original PDF codes, retaining the source face and weight. Missing
 contextual glyphs are refused. `pdf::recovered_thai_map` recognizes narrowly fingerprinted
diff --git a/crates/fonts/src/pdf.rs b/crates/fonts/src/pdf.rs
index 2693c19701..0ef49c81a5 100644
--- a/crates/fonts/src/pdf.rs
+++ b/crates/fonts/src/pdf.rs
@@ -113,7 +113,11 @@ pub fn embedded_sfnt_within(doc: &Document, font: &Dict, budget: &mut DecodeBudg
         if face.metrics(skrifa::instance::Size::unscaled(), skrifa::instance::LocationRef::default()).units_per_em == 0 {
             continue;
         }
-        if face.charmap().mappings().next().is_some() {
+        let own_cmap = face.charmap().mappings().next().is_some();
+        // A legacy THSarabunPSK subset may keep a Latin-only cmap beside its Thai glyphs, which
+        // only the PDF's verified maps reach (`composite_glyph_maps`); other programs keep theirs.
+        let base_font = font.name(b"BaseFont").map(String::from_utf8_lossy).unwrap_or_default();
+        if own_cmap && !base_font.rsplit('+').next().is_some_and(|f| f.starts_with("THSarabunPSK")) {
             return Some(bytes);
         }
         // PDF subsets may remove the Unicode cmap entirely. Rebuild an editor-only
@@ -124,6 +128,20 @@ pub fn embedded_sfnt_within(doc: &Document, font: &Dict, budget: &mut DecodeBudg
             if let Some((map, _)) = composite_glyph_maps(doc, font, &bytes, &metrics, budget) {
                 mappings = map;
             }
+            if own_cmap {
+                let charmap = face.charmap();
+                if mappings.keys().all(|&u| char::from_u32(u).is_some_and(|c| charmap.map(c).is_some())) {
+                    return Some(bytes);
+                }
+                // The program's own mappings stay; the PDF's fill only what they lack.
+                mappings.extend(charmap.mappings().filter(|(_, g)| g.to_u32() != 0).take(65_537).map(|(u, g)| (u, g.to_u32())));
+                let mut merged = bytes.clone();
+                let usable = append_editor_cmap(&mut merged, &mappings).is_some()
+                    && skrifa::FontRef::new(&merged).is_ok_and(|font| font.charmap().mappings().next().is_some());
+                return Some(if usable { merged } else { bytes });
+            }
+        } else if own_cmap {
+            return Some(bytes);
         } else if let Ok(cmap) = face.cmap() {
             for code in 0..=255 {
                 let Some(text) = metrics.unicode.text(code) else { continue };
diff --git a/crates/fonts/src/pdf/thai.rs b/crates/fonts/src/pdf/thai.rs
index 33932a6ca7..9ec2ff738b 100644
--- a/crates/fonts/src/pdf/thai.rs
+++ b/crates/fonts/src/pdf/thai.rs
@@ -583,6 +583,21 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(shaped.shaped.glyphs.iter().map(|g| g.id.to_u32()).collect::<Vec<_>>(), [214, 352]);
     }
 
+    /// A legacy subset that kept a Latin-only cmap of its own still reaches its Thai glyphs through
+    /// the PDF's verified maps, and keeps its own mappings.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_latin_only_cmap_does_not_hide_a_legacy_subsets_thai_glyphs() {
+        use skrifa::MetadataProvider as _;
+        let program = without_tables(&thai_ordered_program(), &[b"GSUB", b"GPOS"]);
+        let latin = skrifa::FontRef::new(&program).unwrap().charmap().map('A').unwrap();
+        let mut doc = Document::new_empty();
+        let font = thai_font(&mut doc, &program, INTACT);
+        let shaped = LegacyThaiFont::from_pdf(&doc, &font, 0.25).unwrap().expect("a legacy subset").shape("ก่").unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(shaped.shaped.glyphs.iter().map(|g| g.id.to_u32()).collect::<Vec<_>>(), [214, 352]);
+        let editor = crate::pdf::embedded_sfnt(&doc, &font).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(skrifa::FontRef::new(&editor).unwrap().charmap().map('A'), Some(latin), "the program's own mappings stay");
+    }
+
     /// A THSarabunPSK program with its own Thai mark positioning is shaped by that layout; one
     /// without it only if every Thai glyph it keeps is where the legacy order has that character
     /// (the legacy shaper skips the positioning check). A subset needs no particular glyph.