Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.com From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: Hiragana and Katakana fonts Message-ID: <1486@intercon.com> Date: 12 Oct 89 20:21:34 GMT References: <30162@watmath.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@intercon.com Reply-To: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 20 In article <30162@watmath.waterloo.edu>, echrzanowski@watmath.waterloo.edu (Edward Chrzanowski) writes: > Does anyone know how these are like or whether > they can be brought out of Japan? They're *gorgeous*. I have a beautiful sample page of Kanji (the style is whatever the Japanese call the equivalent of Chinese Kai-Shu). The biggest problem that I know about is a technical one--they need new versions of PostScript that support composite fonts, and I gather they take up more memory than most current PostScript printers have... There may also be licensing issues, since I would imagine a Japanese company (NEC, maybe) cooperated with Adobe in the development (the page I have is off of an NEC printer). -- Amanda Walker "Tobacco is the only drug in America that will kill you if it's taken as directed." --Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General