[comp.fonts] Asian fonts

boyle@gca.UUCP (David Boyle) (04/08/91)

I am looking for public domain sources for X bitmap fonts and Hershey
format (or even better, DataViews format) stroke fonts for Kanji and
Hangul.  Please mail your responses and I will post a summary.

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mleisher@nmsu.edu (Mark Leisher) (04/12/91)

In article <597@gca.UUCP> boyle@gca.UUCP (David Boyle) writes:

 >   I am looking for public domain sources for X bitmap fonts and Hershey
 >   format (or even better, DataViews format) stroke fonts for Kanji and
 >   Hangul.  Please mail your responses and I will post a summary.

I've got a collection of Chinese, Japanese and Korean X11 fonts on:
crl.nmsu.edu:pub/chinese/fonts/  [128.123.1.14]
            :pub/japanese/fonts/
            :pub/korean/korean-fonts.tar.Z

There are only 2 Korean fonts, they are both 16x16 Jamos and Hangul
fonts.  There are a number of Kanji fonts in a number of sizes.

As for stroked fonts, as far as I know, there are no usable Chinese,
Japanese, or Korean stroked fonts (in any format) freely available.
I would love to be wrong about this!  If I am, *PLEASE* tell me about
it!  I have been looking for freely available stroked (Postscript,
TeX, etc) fonts for a LONG TIME!

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