Also, are there any more Chinese TrueType fonts available for SuSE?
The Arphic PL fonts are the only *free* Chinese TrueType fonts I know
of. There are some other fonts which can be downloaded free of charge
for *personal use*, for example the NTU fonts, but we are not allowed
to distribute them.
If you have access to other Chinese TrueType fonts, you can of
course use them with SuSE Linux (make sure to obey the license of
the fonts). Look here how to add additional TrueType fonts:
http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/installing-tt-fonts-X11.html
In case you are using Xft (for example when you are using KDE
with anti-aliasing) there is the additional problem that Xft
can only use fonts which have a Unicode cmap.
There are many Chinese TrueType fonts which have only a Big5 or
gb2312 cmap though. In case you have such fonts and want
to use them with
Xft, please download oto:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/7.3-i386/oto-0.3-0.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/7.3-src/oto-0.3-0.src.rpm
or from the mirrors:
Japan ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/Linux/packages/SuSE/people/mfabian/
Germany ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/people/mfabian/
After the installation of oto, you'll find usage instructions in
/usr/share/doc/packages/oto/README
using oto, it is very easy to add a Unicode cmap to fonts which have
only
a Big5 or gb2312 cmap. The converted fonts can then be used with
Xft.
There are ten free-distributed TTF fonts developed by the professor of