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Simplified Chinese Solaris User's Guide

Creating Characters With sdtudctool

You can create new characters using the drawing tools in the sdtudctool utility. (For information on modifying a font, see "Editing Fonts With fontedit".) The new characters you create with sdtudctool can be saved in the five empty code positions between level-1 and level-2 Chinese characters (from 0xD7FA to 0xD7FE). The sdtudctool utility supports bitmap, Type 1, and CID fonts. You can also specify a font size for the new characters. This section contains procedures for using sdtudctool.

Note -

Currently sdtudctool supports only EUC locales, such as zh. This utility is therefore not available in the zh_GBK locale.

Using sdtudctool

This section contains instructions for creating new characters with the sdtudctool utility.

  1. To start the utility, type the following command:


    system% sdtudctool

    The following window appears.

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  2. Click Character.

    The following dialog box appears:

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  3. Specify the code position of the new character.

  4. Create the outline or bitmap for the character using the drawing tools.

  5. Click Save to save the character.

  6. Continue creating new characters.

  7. When you are finished, choose Save from the File menu to save the changes to your environment.

    The new character(s) are saved in $HOME/.Xlocale/zh/fonts/UDC.

Specifying Options

  1. Choose Options from the File menu.

    The Options dialog box appears.

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  2. Turn on Append Font Path to append the UDC font aliases to your font path.

  3. Turn on Save Font Path to add the font files to the system font path.

    The new font files (located in $HOME/.Xlocale/zh/fonts/UDC) will be listed in the $HOME/.OWfontpath file and made available to the X server the next time you log in.

    If Save Font Path is off, the font files will still be saved in $HOME/.Xlocale/zh/fonts/UDC, but will not be added to the system fontpath the next time you log in.

  4. Choose one or more of the following font sizes (in points) for the bitmap fonts: 12, 14, 16, 20, 24.

Viewing the Character Reference

  1. To view the character reference, click the icon below the Help menu.

    The following window appears.

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  2. To close the window, click the icon again.

Typing the New Characters

  1. To type the characters you created, use the Location code input mode (for more information, see "Location Code Mode ").