#Japanese Postscript
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Does anyone have any solid information as to what is happening with development
for Japanese(kanji) postscript? I have been hearing rumors for many months with
no solid reports on progress or dates. I have spoken to Apple Japan who says
they have tested alpha versions but can not say when a presentable product will
be out. Actually they point the finger at Adobe saying that they are simply
waiting for Adobe to come out with the fonts. I have also heard that Adobe is
working with a major Japanese firm(Morisawa?), who develops typefaces, but this
is information from some time ago. I am particularly interested in using
Japanese postscript with a Macintosh running Japanese language software
networked in a decnet environment using the VAX as a file and printer server.
The printers will be QMS 800 IIs and 810s.
regards,
Norio Furuya
At the Seybold Seminar last month, John Warnock (president of Adobe Systems)
spoke briefly about Japanese (Kanji) PostScript. Apparently they are extending
the PostScript language to provide additional features for Kanji. Although
these extensions will be available for downloading to current PostScript
printers, output will be much faster if a machine incorporating the new
capabilities is used. This question is in addition to the font issue, which is
of course a complex one due to the size of the alphabet. I visited Adobe after
the seminar and found the type department actively engaged in creating Kanji
characters, so that work is certainly progressing. There is some talk of
creating "extensible" fonts so that the special characters needed by individual
users could be added to the "basic" character set to be provided by Adobe.
Before buying current-generation PostScript printers like the QMS or Apple
models for your Japanese-language application, I would contact Adobe and the
Japanese home-market licensed manufacturers of PostScript printers for more
details on the Kanji extensions.