mzw_t@hpujsda.HP.COM (Matsuzawa Takashi) (01/21/91)
(Peter! I am sorry for also posting my reply to your private mail to the News, but I felt it better to provide this knowledge to the Usenet society also.) Hi, > I have NTT-JTeX running under UNIX, and I would like to > know how to print the dvi files on either a postscript or > an imagen printer without having to buy fonts (unless they are > VERY CHEAP!-) > (I can print SJIS/EUC files using kanjips and bdf fonts). Because you already can print out Japanese texts using `kanjips', what you desire is the better quality. I doubt following will answer to your needs, but anyway, I hope this helps. 1. Japanese Laser Printers. Japanese printer manufacturers sell their products to the domestic (Japanese) market with kanji fonts installed. It is rare that Japanese customers buy printers which does not support Japanese fonts (like *LaserJet*.) So, if you were a Japanese computer user and bought a domestic version of Japanese printer, you already have kanji fonts with the professional quality. For example, NTX-J is the Japanese variation of LaserWriterII, which comes with 40M fixed disk on which the outline kanji fonts already installed. (Of cause, you can freely magnify them to whatever size desired, writing PoseScript scrits!) Recent Japanese DVIwares (jdvi2kps, etc.) tend to use printers' internal kanji fonts, not using the disk fonts. This is because your can save your disk space by not installing the kanji fonts on the disk, or you do not have to buy kanji fonts. (Do you want to buy additional kanji fonts when you already have pritty fonts in your printers?) The technique often used by these DVIwares is to modify the printers kanji fonts' metric information on run-time, so that they can work with jTeX's *.tfm font information. You may feel this dangerous, because jTeX and printers' kanji fonts are different, but kanji fonts usually do not have ligatures nor kernings (e.g. for 10pt kanjis, you may jus think them as 10pt x 10pt squares), so it rarely makes design problems. I usually use jdv2kps, which converts ASCII's jTeX output into Kanji PostScrit, and it looks great. (I believe there are some more others, but I am not too knowledgeable about the subject...) 2. JIS fonts. > You say it comes with jTeX (I assume NTT) but my distribution only has > *.tfm and *.pl files. Do you know where I can get the *.pk files? Is it the Ntt-jTeX which was available from `utsun.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp'? If it is so, then they might have eliminated the JIS fonts from the distribution, thinking that no one uses them any more, and they were just wasting the disk space. (jTeX was also available via ctapes.) I still have at hand the JIS fonts which came with jTeX distribution, which are not proprietary and can be distributed freely. Then looks like this: jisfonts jisfonts/dots jisfonts/dots/jfont16.data jisfonts/dots/jfont24.data jisfonts/gf jisjgreek24.300gf jisjgreek36.300gf jisjgreek48.300gf jisjgreek72.300gf jisjhira24.300gf ... Consists of the original 16x16 and 24x24 bitmap data, *.tfm, *.gf and *.pk fonts for Canon CX type (300dpi) printers. Because they were automatically generated from 16x16 / 24x24 bitmap data, the quality is low, and you might have to modify the jTeX macros to support these JIS (not DNP) fonts. If you need it, I can send it to you. It is approx. 12M, so mail archives like uuencode/decode may not be appropriate. Do your site allow me to anonymously `put' by FTP this thing? Or, do you know any Internet sites that may want to keep this in their /pub directory? If there are, I will gladly tar archive them and FTP. (Of cause, I can mail this to you, when no one else have interested on this.) 3. DNP fonts. DNP (Dai Nippon Printing) fonts are the proprietary Kanji fonts for jTeX. I quote their notices from a book titled `TeX Nyuumon' (Kyoritsu Shuppan, ISBN 4-320-02488-5). This book has a good description on NTT-jTeX system. On ASCII-jTeX (pTeX?) system, refer to `Nihongo TeX Technical Book' (ASCII Shuppan-kyoku, ISBN 4-7561-0405-3). Please note that I have no idea if they still provide these services, because I did not make any contact with them so far. I am just *quoting* from the book. The book is first published in July 1989 (1.5 years ago.) Things change so rapidly in the computer society, so do not hold too much expectation. (from Appendix E.) o Mr. Nishimoto, DEC Users' Society, PO Box 1135, Sunshine 60 Post Office, Higashi Ikebukuro 3-1-1, Toshima-ku, #170 Japan. (tel 03-989-7060) They provides the VAX/VMS version. DECUS members only. o Mr. Goto, Mr. Usagi DIT Gijyutsu-bu, Ishihara bldg. 4F Iidabashi 3-3-12 Chiyoda-ku, #102 Japan. yas@dit.junet, usagi@dit.junet Imagen users, or Unix users. (I believe they can be reached via yas@dit.co.jp, usagi@dit.co.jp, but I have never tried. -- mzw_t) There are several others, but they do not privide DNP fonts (jTeX only), or for their customers only. Consult them with the costs and deliveries. (I thought it cost seveal 10 thousand yens.) I think it is better you would better tell them clearly which jTeX (NTT of ASCII) you are currently using, when you make contact with them. There is a Japanese TeX User Group, but I am not a member of them, and unfortunately I do not know the e-mail address of them. I hope someone on the net kindly provide us the further information. Best Regards, Takashi Matsuzawa.