[xep-support] Configuring Asian Fonts How-To

[W. Eliot Kimber]

W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
> Gustaf Liljegren wrote:
> 
>> Eliot wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I am trying to configure XEP under Windows to render Asian languages 
>>> (Japanes and Simplified Chinese to start with) and I'm not having 
>>> much luck, but largely because I have no idea what I should be doing.
>>
>>
>>
>> What you should be doing is to copy your CIDFont directory to /afm. You
>> normally find it in your Acrobat directory (also Acrobat Reader, if you
>> choosed to install CJK fonts). Then just call the fonts in 'font-family'
>> using the names or aliases specified in fonts.xml.
> 
> 
> I was able to make this work for Simplified Chinese (haven't tried for 
> Japanese yet, but I'm sure it will work). Using the fonts with the 
> latest Adobe CJK font packs for Windows

I was also able to use the Windows SimHei font (which I think is part of 
the Windows regional support for Simplified Chinese):

    <font name="SimHei"
          ttf="c:\winnt\fonts\SimHei.ttf"
          embed="true">
    </font>

These two fonts produce slightly different effects in PDF--the Adobe 
font uses a lighter stroke weight, so it's harder to read (lighter) but 
probably more aesthetically pleasing (not that I know anything about the 
aesthetics of ideographic scripts).

The SimHei font is what XSL Formatter uses as its default font for 
Simplified Chinese (zh-CN).

Cheers,

E.
-- 
W. Eliot Kimber, eliot at isogen.com
Consultant, ISOGEN International

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