izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) (05/22/91)
Archive-name: text/japanese/kanjips/1991-05-21 Archive: mindseye.berkeley.edu:/pub/kanji/kanjips.tar.Z [128.32.232.19] Original-posting-by: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Original-subject: Re: Desperately Seeking a Japanese Kanji Postscript font set Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <97646@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> brand@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Russell Brand) writes: > >I need to print out structure charts where the variable names and >titles are in Japanese. I have and old Postscript program that I had >written to do this for COBOL and would like to adapt it and it seems >that all I need is an appropriate set of fonts descriptor to download >inot my printer. > >If anyone can tell where I can beg borrow or buy such a font set, I >would be most obliged. > Since Japanese Kanji fonts have upto 6000-7000 chars, current PS printers that support Kanji PS fonts have a built-in hard disk with fonts in it (LaserWriter NTX-J). Furthermore, most PS printers now in circulation is the US probably lack the "conposite font extention" in the interpreter, which is needed to properly use Kanji PS fonts. For this reason, I don't think you can do font download to the printer and hope that it will work. If you can tolerate jaggies in the printout for Kanji, there is a program which expands Kanji PostScript into bit-mapped fontdata + standard PostScript code so that it can be printed on any PS printers. It uses 24x24 dot fonts. If you want to try this, you can get it via anon FTP from host mindseye.berkeley.edu as file /pub/kanji/kanjips.tar.Z. It can handle 7-bit JIS, EUC, and Shift-JIS encoding, if I remember correctly. P.S. I am interested in buying real Kanji PostScript fonts. I just called Adobe today, and was told that Adobe does not sell any foreign language PS fonts. Does anyone know where I can buy Kanji PS fonts? Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (415) 642-6440 Fax: (415) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@violet.berkeley.edu NeXTmail: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu -- comp.archives file verification mindseye.berkeley.edu -rw-r--r-- 1 228 other 456135 Aug 2 1990 /pub/kanji/kanjips.tar.Z found kanjips ok mindseye.berkeley.edu:/pub/kanji/kanjips.tar.Z