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From: greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid)
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Subject: Re: Foriegn markets and Languages
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Date: 12 May 89 17:54:19 GMT
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In article <24176@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:
>
>I am hoping that I can just buy nice Kanji fonts for DPS from
>Adobe, and just load-and-go.  I know  Apple sells a version
>of their LaserWriter NTX with built-in Kanji fonts in Japan.
>If DPS supports Kanji, then it shouldn't take any changes to
>whatever NeXT does on top of DPS.  Perhaps, Glenn can comment on this?

Unfortunately, that won't be the case.  The composite font extensions
to the language have not yet made it into the Display PostScript
product.  Also, we do not sell Kanji fonts directly at this time.  Our
OEM customers currently build the fonts into their printer products.

Composite font technology will be built into Display PostScript, it
just isn't done yet.  I don't know if/when we will ever sell the fonts
themselves direct.  That's another issue.  If we did (and when DPS has
the composite font code), you should be able to load-and-go.

"Glenn"