d85-per@nada.kth.se (Per Hammarlund) (07/09/88)
Hello, Has anyone any experience with kanji fonts on a postscript laser? Has anybody hacked together such fonts? Any references to this subject is greatly appreciated! /Per Hammarlund, d85-per@nada.kth.se, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
aaron@proxftl.UUCP (07/12/88)
> Has anyone any experience with kanji fonts on a postscript laser? Has > anybody hacked together such fonts? I know that there exists something out there that's LIKE a postscript kanji font; it stores the strokes as shapes, and can print them out on a dot matrix printer in sizes up to 256x256bits.. Since it stores the strokes as strokes (i.e. it's not bitmapped), it could be reasonably converted. However, this font looks pretty horrendous. The Japanese government created a 16x16 map of around 6000 characters (called the JIS set; I believe it stands for Japanese Industrial Standard). This set is public domain, and contains an extensive punctuation set, all ASCII characters, Hiragana, Katakana, Greek, Cyrillic, and some thousands of kanji. It's legible, and here we're using this font on a QMS laser printer (going into bitmap mode, not using any special graphics functions). So yes, it will _work_ on any printer where bitmapping can be requested, but it doesn't look so hot. If someone were to create a postscript set, they would have to create a library of perhaps a hundred different types of strokes (sure it's not more than 256, so it ought to fit into a byte), and then store the start and finish points, as well as the sizes, of these strokes. I looked into it, 'cause I wanted to create such a font, but it's really not relevant to what I'm working on now, and I discovered it would take a considerably long time. Still, if anyone else knows something I don't about postscript kanji (or any good-looking laser kanji at all), I'd like to hear about it. -- Aaron | Proximity Tech. |----------------------------------------| Charles | 3511 NE 22 Ave. | Speaking only for myself, o' course... | Zimmerman | Fort Ladeda, FL |----------------------------------------| ----------------| (3,055,663,511) | (UUCP: uflorida!novavax!proxftl!aaron) |
usenet@dandelion.CI.COM (News Administrator) (07/14/88)
set of stroked fonts that look nice when drawn on a Postscript laser printer. harvard!ci-dandelion.CI.COM!jim jim hurt From: jim@blossom.ci.com (Jim Hurt) Path: blossom!jim
greg@proxftl.UUCP (Gregory N. Hullender) (07/15/88)
In article <4402@dandelion.CI.COM>, usenet@dandelion.CI.COM (News Administrator) writes:
that the Hershey fonts contain a set of stroke-definitions for Kanji.
That's very nice if it's true. There are 6,802 characters in the JIS set,
(3,418 in the level-1 subset). Do you have a set of fonts with this many
Japanese characters? What I'm afraid is that it just has the 83 Hiragana
and the 86 Katakana characters.
Anyway, I'm very interested.
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