Re: [DOC] Poorman's Chinese Type1 font for CJK-latex
Hello,
I'm sorry for such late reply. I went to camping last week.
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 04:01:39PM +0800, Edward G.J. Lee wrote:
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> ¾¸üа汾ÖÁ 0.14h ºóÒÑ¿ÉÒÔÕý³£×ö³öÄÚǶ TTF ×ÖÐ굀 pdf µµÁË£¡^_^
Yep, that's the bad part of using pdflatex and ttf. It really needs
up-to-date version. Fortunately it's rather easy to just update pdflatex
without affecting the rest of tex tree.
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> ÏÖÔÚµÄÎÊÌâÊÇ£¬×ö³öÀ´µÄ pdf ±ÈʹÓà Type1(via ttf2pt1)µÄ ps µµ»¹Òª´ó£¡
> »¹ÒªÔÙÑо¿¡¢Ñо¿...£¬ÈÃËû²»ÄÚǶ£¿
Really? how big? Following are some numbers I got (all in unit of 1000 byte):
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
GB.tex 42 48 88 60 51
larger file 2026 2353 2332 1232 757
(1) ps <= pk+dvips
(2) pdf <= pk+pdflatex
(3) ps <= pfb+dvips
(4) pdf <= pfb+pdflatex
(5) pdf <= ttf+pdflatex
As you can see, when size is small, pk font (1 and 2) holds a slight margin
than direct ttf (5), and pfb font (3,4) gives biggest size. As file size
increase, the ones using pk font increase dramatically, the ones using pfb
font now becomes second best, while direct ttf gives a significant smaller
file. So in any case, direct ttf almost always gives the smallest size and
the best quality (at least one of the best).
Of cause, one can create a ps file with pfb font without embedding them,
thus truly small size. That requires all the pfb subfonts visible
to gs. However, given the non existence of font naming standard, I doubt
many people want to do that. As for not embedding ttf font, I'm afraid that
would be very hard to do under current frame. The only hope is that one
day omega project will support cid font.
Anthony Fok wrote:
> ¡¡¡¡ºÇºÇ£¬Õâ¸öÎÒ×òÌìÍíÉÏÊÔµ½ÁË£¡Ö»ÊÇûÓд¹Ö±×ÖÐÍ (rotate font?)£¬Ò²Ã»ÓÐ
> SlantFont ... ³ý´ËÒÔÍ⣬Ч¹ûÏ൱²»´í¡£ :-) ÁíÍ⣬ÇëÈ·¶¨ÄãµÄ pdftex °æ±¾
Yes, there's no support for "slanting". I guess that can be added, not sure.
I do have a question concerning slant font, which has been in my head for a
while. The question is: does traditional (authentic) chinese typography ever
use slant or italic font? My feeling is that they're west only style. Any one
knows? BTW, does any one know a good book on chinese typography?
As for vertical glyph, no support exist either. However I feel it can be
added without much difficulty as long as the ttf font contains a GSUB
table. GSUB is opentype extension, most of the modern Windows ttf fonts
have it. It contains the vertical (rotated glyph) substitutions for
horizontal glyph. Oddly the two gb arphic fonts do not have this table,
while the big5 fonts do.
Regard,
rigel
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