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From: eric@gmdzi.gmd.de (Erich Rome)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Chinese Laserfonts
Keywords: fonts chinese mac laserprinter
Message-ID: <3357@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Date: 19 Sep 90 08:06:18 GMT
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany
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Hello!

Could anybody give me hints on or references to downloadable
chinese fonts for Macintosh-compatible Laser Printers?

I am using Apple's chinese system software (to be precise:
version 6.0.3 with the simplified chinese characters as used
in the People's Republic of China, which is different from
the taiwanese version (traditional characters)) and Nisus 
Text Editor to generate bilingual (german/chinese) text 
documents. The system software comes along with a bitmap
font (Beijing) of simplified characters, but the print
quality of bitmapped chinese characters on an ordinary 
LaserWriter II NTX is miserable and not acceptable for 
generating print masters for publishing.

Wanted, but not vital, is also any downloadable font for
the Pinyin Transcription of chinese language. Pinyin uses
roman characters and four special accents on vocals. These
accents are: the french accent grave and accent aigue, a
reflected accent circonflex and a horizontal bar. Since 
these accents may occur on every vocal in lower- and 
uppercase, a Pinyin font for the Mac requires 40 different 
vocal characters, which are only partly covered by any
standard Mac font.

Thank you in advance for any useful hint.

Erich Rome          eric@gmdzi.uucp
Bonn
West Germany