[del...] Mike Fabian wrote:
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 Hann-Tzong Wang, at the Department of Math, Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan. If anyone is interesting in those 10 ttf fonts, you can connect to the 10 ftp address for downloading. I have never used those fonts before, no warranty about the fonts. ftp://ftp2.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/zh-wangttf/wcl-01.ttf.bz2 ftp://ftp2.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/zh-wangttf/wcl-02.ttf.bz2 ftp://ftp2.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/zh-wangttf/wcl-03.ttf.bz2 ftp://ftp2.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/zh-wangttf/wcl-04.ttf.bz2 ftp://ftp2.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/zh-wangttf/wcl-05.ttf.bz2 ftp://ftp2.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/zh-wangttf/wcl-06.ttf.bz2 ftp://ftp2.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/zh-wangttf/wcl-07.ttf.bz2 ftp://ftp2.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/zh-wangttf/wcl-08.ttf.bz2 ftp://ftp2.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/zh-wangttf/wcl-09.ttf.bz2 ftp://ftp2.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/zh-wangttf/wcl-10.ttf.bz2