Re: [tlug] Nice kanji fonts for TeX/LaTeX

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

>>>>> "Botond" == Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com> writes:

    Botond> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:13:02 +0100 Marcus Metzler
    Botond> <mocm@example.com> wrote:
 
    >> >> Is there an easy way to get LaTeX to use scalable fonts that
    >> >> would result in less blocky large kanji?
    Botond> I think using truetype fonts would result in a less blocky
    Botond> kanji. Did you try to use any?  -- Special TLUG Meeting:
    >> I tried, but somehow latex did not use them. Maybe it is the
    >> utf8 encoding. I could not find any comprehensive description
    >> on how to do it.

    Botond> This issue pops up on tlug once in a while.  See this
    Botond> thread: http://www.tlug.jp/ML/0601/msg00420.html The
    Botond> attachment is not directly available, so I posted it here:
    Botond> http://siliconium.net/~boti/pdflatex.tar.gz

Thanks, it didn't work with pdflatex, but that could be because my
latex installation was busted. I reinstalled tetex and found the
following website:

http://www-alg.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/~jan/japfonts.html

And after the reinstallation it worked fine. The fonts look much
better:
see http://www.mocm.de/2042-2058-better.ps and the old at 
http://www.mocm.de/2042-2058.ps

Marcus

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