Re: Successful Japanese Printing

[turnbull@example.com (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

>>>>> "Craig" == Craig Oda <craig@example.com> writes:

    Craig> I'm not a GhostScript guy and don't know the program
    Craig> intimately, but to my inexperienced eye, the Japanese
    Craig> version looks pretty hacked.  I couldn't find Japanese docs
    Craig> for the setup and the English ones are non-existant as far
    Craig> as I can tell.

It's heavily hacked, the hacks are not portable to later versions of
GS.  The explicit documentation is non-existent (that I could find)
and the comments in the source are occasionally wrong (according to
Peter Deutsch, the author of Ghostscript).

I had hoped to be able to announce how to install the modern
kanji-capable versions (3.51+) with the Wadalab fonts in this
message.  madamada desu....  It's not hard, just mendokusai.  Maybe
next week....

    Craig> I also installed the font package though I'm not sure this
    Craig> is necessary.

This is necessary, at least in the version I had, because otherwise
you don't have any Japanese fonts.  I don't know if 2.4.1 was capable
of borrowing X fonts as more recent GSes are.

    Craig> On a different subject, I installed xpdf which allows me to
    Craig> to view the Adobe Acrobat format pdf files that are
    Craig> recently becoming popular.  It works fairly well.

GS 3.30+ also does PDF.  Ghostview should shortly do PDF; the patches
are there but not integrated into the 1.5 distribution (nor into my
installation).

Reagrds,
Steve

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                            Stephen J. Turnbull
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