Re: Is there a de facto standard Chinese PostScript font name?
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, rigel wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:34:50PM +0800, Cosmos wrote:
> >
> > I have make a demo for this, using FreeType.
> >
> > http://www.cis.nctu.edu.tw/~gis88564/test.ps
>
> That's exactly what I meant. Look your file. It maybe trivia to you, but
> it's highly unlikely an average programmer capable of embedding such
> thing in his/her application. So I still think providing some API is a better
> idea. Type 3 font is occasionally needed for maximum portability. By providing
That's great if have such library. But previous discuss is convert a
TrueType font into Type3 font. This job is the maintainer's job, not
every programmer's job. No matter this job is trivial or non-trivial,
that's the maintainer's bussiness.
> an API, applications are not limited to only use arphic font. Frankly, arphic
> fonts are not enough for publishing purpose and we can not legally convert
> and distribute other fonts.
But, do we have any other choice?
> > With correct configuration, we can use a Type3 as gs provided.
> > Within ps file, we can just write as above.
> > /KaiSu-Regular findfont 24 scalefont setfont
> > 100 440 moveto
> > (永abcdf龙) show
>
> Theoretically you can still call it Type3 fonts, but it has defied its own
> purpose. Type3 fonts should be embedded into the documentation for the maximum
> flexibility. If i have to depend gs to use these fonts, I'd rather use
> truetype font directly.
Although the font file is type3 format, but the user won't see the font
itself is Type3 or Type1. Font just a font. So, don't care font is
Type3, Type1 or TrueType. Thinking about a type3 font which can
interpret chinese encoding, what will happen? we can use any version gs
to see chinese. That's great. right?
> BTW, have you compare the size of embedded bitmap and vetorial fonts? My
> guess is that the latter is significantly bigger. If that's the case, I'm
> not sure the trade off is worth it.
In my experiment, a document embedded with chinese bitmap font will be
*very very* huge. When we want to print a 24x24 font, we must provide
a 96x96 font in document to have a smooth font in paper. So for differ
size font, we must have differ size bitmap font. When a document
contain a string with big font size, it will be very terrible. I suggest
you to embedded a scalable font rather then a bitmap font.
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