echrzanowski@watmath.waterloo.edu (Edward Chrzanowski) (10/12/89)
For all those people requesting info on the Japanese fonts. Hang on for a while. I received numerous responses and I am following them up. I even sent out feelers to Japan. One sore note. Adobe does make a postcript version of the fonts but only sell it to OEM's in Japan. Does anyone know how these are like or whether they can be brought out of Japan? echrzanowski@watmath.waterloo.edu
amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) (10/13/89)
In article <30162@watmath.waterloo.edu>, echrzanowski@watmath.waterloo.edu (Edward Chrzanowski) writes: > Does anyone know how these are like or whether > they can be brought out of Japan? They're *gorgeous*. I have a beautiful sample page of Kanji (the style is whatever the Japanese call the equivalent of Chinese Kai-Shu). The biggest problem that I know about is a technical one--they need new versions of PostScript that support composite fonts, and I gather they take up more memory than most current PostScript printers have... There may also be licensing issues, since I would imagine a Japanese company (NEC, maybe) cooperated with Adobe in the development (the page I have is off of an NEC printer). -- Amanda Walker <amanda@intercon.com> "Tobacco is the only drug in America that will kill you if it's taken as directed." --Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General
dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Don Hosek) (10/13/89)
[with regard to Adobe's Kanji fonts] In article <1486@intercon.com> amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes: >In article <30162@watmath.waterloo.edu>, echrzanowski@watmath.waterloo.edu >(Edward Chrzanowski) writes: >> Does anyone know how these are like or whether >> they can be brought out of Japan? > >They're *gorgeous*. I have a beautiful sample page of Kanji (the style is >whatever the Japanese call the equivalent of Chinese Kai-Shu). Talking to colleagues in Japan, the most common sentiment about the Adobe Kanji font is that it is rather ugly and hard to read. The only samples I have are a gargantuan multi-page printout of Adobe's JIS table, so I have never gotten a chance to see them in use, however. -dh -- Don Hosek | Internet: DHOSEK@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU | Bitnet: DHOSEK@HMCVAX.BITNET | Phone: 714-920-0655 (I used to be a Mudder, but I got better)