Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (52 mails)

[Wu Kuen-Phon <g894223@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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