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- From: Jon Wiederspan <jonwd@uwtc.washington.edu>
- Subject: Re: Printing Japanese fonts
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- References: <Penelope_Theodore-101292103821@cis_staff-kntx32.cis.brown.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:22:05 GMT
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- In article <622@titmath.math.titech.ac.jp> shiga, shiga@math.titech.ac.jp
- writes:
- >In article
- <Penelope_Theodore-101292103821@cis_staff-kntx32.cis.brown.edu>,
- >Penelope_Theodore@brown.edu (Penelope Theodore) writes:
- >>
- >> Can anyone offer advice on the best way to print out Japanese fonts
- from a
- >> Classic to a StyleWriter or HP DeskWriter? The Classic is running
- Japanese
- >> system software and EG Word, and a test with the DeskWriter yielded
- spacing
- >> problems. Would there be any advantage to using 7.1 with WorldScript
- and a
- >> Japanese script installed, and will Microsoft Word accept and print
- >> Japanese characters in this situation?
- >>
- >> I have spoken with the supplier of Adobe Japanese fonts, and they offer
- >> ATM-J and two fonts that are System resident (apparently making for
- slow
- >> printing). Has anyone used this, I am wondering if this might be the
- best
- >> option. Thanks for any information/comments.
- >
- >I use TrueType Japanese Fonts which are supplied from Apple Japan. Adobe
- Japan
- >sells ATM-J and Japanese Postscript (screen) fonts for ATM-J. By using
- these fonts,
- >you can get good output of any Japanese document from a StyleWrter,
- DeskWriter and
- >others. I recommend you TrueType-J because Adobe's J-fonts have very
- strong
- >copy protections. But I do not know how to purchase them in U.S.A.,
- sorry.
- >As for MSWord, it does not match Kanji perfectly while it works as an
- English word
- >processor under a Japanese system. So, it is better to use EG Word (now
- ver. 5.0)
- >or other Japanese word processor to print Japanese characters.
- >Hiroshige SHIGA, Department of Mathematics Tokyo Institute of Technology
- >shiga@math.titech.ac.jp
-
- You can get the TrueType fonts from one of several KanjiTalk authorized
- dealers. We have one in Seattle (The Computer Store) and you can find
- the one closest to you by calling APDA at 1-800-282-2732 (USA). Of
- course noone in the US (or in Japan, from what I was told) is selling the
- worldscript-compatible KanjiTalk7 version 7.1, but from tests with the
- alpha release of it, it doesn't appear that the English version of
- Microsoft Word (is there any other?) will handle kanji any better under
- 7.1 than it did before. If you are unhappy with EGWord, I would
- recommend Nisus; you can buy it with a Japanese-handling extension or you
- can buy the Japanese version (SoloWriter). We use SoloWriter and it
- works great. In fact, with the exception of tables (which SoloWriter
- lacks) I prefer it to Microsoft Word in *any* language.
- Regarding printing speed, in my experience both TrueType and ATM are
- pretty slow printing Japanese, although we use a slow printer as well.
-
- Jon Wiederspan.
-