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In the PDF document some of the glyphs have bogus `differences`-entries[1] that cannot be resolved to valid glyph names, thus causing the glyph mapping to fail.
My initial idea was to use a similar approach as in the `PartialEvaluator._simpleFontToUnicode`-method, to extract the charCodes from those entries, however it turned out that that didn't actually help in this case (the mapping was still wrong).
To fix this I'm thus proposing that we fallback to the /ToUnicode map when no other useable data exists (e.g. no post-table), since it *hopefully* shouldn't make things any worse than leaving parts of the glyph map empty (which currently happens).
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[1] As can be seem below, some of the entries are completely normal while others are non-standard:
```
Differences (array)
0 = 65
1 = /g5167
2 = /space
3 = /g11927
4 = /g17737
5 = /g11540
6 = /g2180
7 = /K
8 = /P
9 = /two
10 = /zero
11 = /one
12 = /five
13 = /four
14 = /g6932
15 = /g7246
16 = /g1691
17 = /g2343
18 = /g14792
19 = /g3325
20 = /g4280
21 = /g20383
22 = /g18166
23 = /g16988
24 = /g17943
25 = /g19223
26 = /g10830
27 = 97
28 = /g982
29 = /g1226
30 = /g5059
31 = /g2677
32 = /g1042
33 = /g11568
34 = /L
35 = /three
36 = /seven
37 = /g2364
38 = /g12063
39 = /g5356
40 = /g2173
41 = /g17877
42 = /g7273
43 = /g7647
44 = /g7224
45 = /g19327
46 = /g5054
47 = /g2342
48 = /g10136
49 = /g6856
50 = /g13381
51 = /g7257
52 = /g12093
53 = /g2359
```
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