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- Readme.doc (about font CK_K version 301.001)
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- Mar. 25. 1992
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- SPRING System and OMNIGENA Co.
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- Have Fun With Chinese Characters!
-
- We are providing some Chinese characters from our high quality fonts for
- your fun. CH_K.PFB and CH_K.GSF each contain (the same) 94 modern (or
- simplified,'short') Chinese characters in Kaishu style (the printed style
- that is closest to brush writing) from our OUTLINE fonts. If you are
- Chinese or like to add an exotic touch to your greeting cards, invitations,
- titles etc., you'll find them pleasant and useful.
-
- CH_K.PFB can be used by Adobe Type Manager under MS-Windows 3.x, and
- CH_K.GSF can be used by Ghostscript. Both of these fonts have been tested
- under these software.
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-
- HOW TO USE
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- 1. Install:
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- For Adobe Type Manager, use ATM to install Hanzi-Kaishu onto your
- Harddisk; for Ghostscript, copy CH_K.GSF to your Ghostscript directory
- and add the line:
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- \Hanzi-Kaishu (ch_k.gsf) \StandardEncoding 4988600 ;
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- to the file FONTMAP.
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- 2. The name of this sample font is 'Hanzi-Kaishu'. In Adobe Type Manager,
- you can choose the font directly from the menu, but in Ghostscript you
- need to type in the full name.
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- 3. You can find all the Chinese characters provided as well as their Oct.
- -codes and key in the files 'CHAR.PS' and 'CHAR.WRI'. Under Adobe Type
- Manager, you can use these characters by typing in the key. You can
- type in the Oct.-codes directly in Ghostscript too.
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- 4. The files 'CIHUI.PS' and 'CIHUI.WRI' contain a listing of some of the
- meaningful combinations of these characters, together with their
- meaning in English.
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- NOTES
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- 1. CH_K.PFB and CH_K.GSF are public domain software and copyrighted by
- SPRING System. That is to say, you are free to downlaod their contents
- from the network, copy and distribute them. You can also apply them for
- any non-commercial use. But you may not, without previous consent from
- SPRING System, to include their contents in any commerical product or
- commercial demo programs, electronic device or otherwise.
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- 2. The format of the outline fonts is based on Postscript Level 2.0 and
- Adobe Type 1 Font Format. We understand that Adobe has put in some new
- commands in their latest versions to make the printing of oriental
- charaters easier, these commands by themselves are nevertheless far
- from sufficient to produce high-quality Chinese characters in print.
- This makes it impossible for us to include all our design parameters
- in the font in question. We also haven't included the Stem Hints
- commands here, since the font provided is meant for large characters
- only. Users should choose a size above 16 pt (180 dpi) or 14 pt
- (300 dpi).
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- WHO ARE WE
-
- -- SPRING SYSTEM, Germany and OMNIGENA Co, Taiwan, a joint venture for
- Chinese software development, are now designing a series of
- intelligent Chinese software suitable not only for native speakers
- or users of Chinese, but even for beginner learners of the language.
-
- -- Our SPRING TEXTSYSTEM 2.3 (available since Dec 1990) is a Chinese word
- processor that is based on keyboard sound input, and you only need to
- type in the accurate sound, in Pinyin or Zhuyin of Chinese compounds
- (less the tones) to have the characters generated by the system.
- (see Appendix)
-
- -- We are also completing our outline fonts project, to provide the
- highest quality fonts available on the market. Our complete set
- of fonts include both the Jiantizi ('modern', 'simplified', or 'short'
- characters used in mainland China and Singapore) and Fantizi
- ('classical', 'full', or 'long' characters used in Taiwan and
- Hong Kong).
-
- -- We are now going heavily into developing a Chinese database management
- software, your ideas and opinions are greatly appreciated.
-
- -- Please contact us under the following addresses, if you'd like to
- request any improvement on the font we provide here, or if you'd like
- to know more about us:
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- Dr. Zhang Zhaoyuan Mr. Wong Yi
- SPRING SYSTEM OMNIGENA Co
- Zuernstrasse. 2 A305 P.O. Box 63-64
- W-8700 Wuerzburg Taichung, Taiwan
- Germany R.O.C.
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- You can get a free copy of the font (Ch_K.PFB and CH_K.GSF together
- with Demoversion of the SPRING TEXTSYSTEM 2.3) from us too. We charge
- postage only:
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- Europe: DM 5; Taiwan: NT 50; Other Areas (by air): US$ 5.
-
- -- Your Comments and Suggestions can also mail to
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- luo@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
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- Appendix
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- The main features of SPRING Textsystem 2.3
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- - SPRING 2.3 runs on the IBM AT and compatibles with VGA card.
- - Simple Input and easy correction of Chinese characters.
- - Cizu Input with main and personal dictionaries. The main dictionary
- contains over 86,000 Chinese multicharacter terms (up to seven
- syllables) and a very fast search function which is also valid for
- multisyllabic Pinyin or Zhuyin terms. The personal dictionaries can
- be extended and changed online. The main dictionary can be extended
- (up to 200,000) and edited with the aid of a separately priced
- Dictionary-editor.
- - Problem-free loading, storing and printing of all printable ASCII
- characters (including German umlauts, French accents and Cyrillic
- characters).
- - Loading, storage and conversion of GB-code texts and of Big-5 code
- texts.
- - Direct, correct conversion between Jiantizi and Fantizi.
- - Selectable and online readable phrasebox for the creation of a
- Western-Chinese dictionary.
- - Key functions for Chinese and Western special characters can be
- changed online.
- - Online Help can be extended by user as required.
- - Simple screen-menu operation and easy editing with the common
- functions of Western word processing programs.
- - Correction and aesthetic printout of Western and Chinese text. With
- the exception of Courier, all fonts are printed proportionally. Up to
- 60 different fonts and sizes can be used in a single text. The
- printout allows many useful text formats for Western and Chinese text.
- - Mouse support.
- - Hi memory support.
- - Chinese font edit in WYSIWIG mode with scaling, block copy, block
- overlap and block move functions, mouse support; use of reference
- fonts.
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- Postscript(TM) is a trademark of Adobe System, incorporated;
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- Ghostscript is an interpreter of Ghostscript language, which very closely
- resembles the Postscript(TM) language, from Aladdin Enterprises.
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- Adobe Type Manager is an Adobe Type 1 font program interpreter from Adobe
- System, incorporated
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- MS-Windows(TM) is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation
-