Using Simplified Chinese PostScript Fonts and DPS Facilities

Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment DPS provides the Simplified Chinese fonts listed in Table 6-2.

Table 6-2 Simplified Chinese Solaris Operating Environment PostScript Fonts

Font Name	Description
Song-Medium	Alias of Song-Medium-EUC; can be used like a Roman font
Song-Medium-EUC	Song-Medium font, EUC encoding, horizontal display; can be used like a Roman font
Song-Medium-H	Song-Medium font, horizontal display, to make a composite font with a Roman font

You can use the following two Simplified Chinese fonts just as you would use Roman fonts:

• Song-Medium

• Song-Medium-EUC

  Figure 6-3 shows a sample of Song-Medium.

Figure 6-3 Sample Simplified Chinese Text Display PostScript Output

Creating Composite Roman and Simplified Chinese Fonts

You can create composite fonts using any one Roman font and the Simplified Chinese Song-Medium-H font. For example, the following PostScript code defines a composite font, Times-Italic+Song-Medium, which uses Times-Italic for ASCII characters and Song-Medium horizontal font for Simplified Chinese characters:

/Times-Italic+Song-Medium
13 dict begin
        	/FontName 1 index def
        	/FMapType 4 def
        	/Encoding [ 0 1 ] def
        	/WMode 0 def
        	/FontType 0 def
        	/FontMatrix [1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0] def
        	/FDepVector [
                	/Times-Italic findfont
                	/Song-Medium-H findfont
        	] def
	currentdict
	end
	definefont pop

Using Simplified Chinese Fonts in DPS Programming

You can use Simplified Chinese fonts just as you use Roman fonts in DPS wrap definitions. The following sample code creates the display in Figure 6-4:

	defineps PSWDisplayText(char *text)
        	/pointSize 50 def
        	/Helvetica pointSize selectfont
        	(Hello World) stringwidth pop 2 div neg 0 moveto
        	(Hello World) show
	
        	/cpSize 40 def
        	/Song-Medium cpSize selectfont
        	(text) stringwidth pop 2 div neg pointSize neg moveto
        	(text) show
	endps

You can call PSWDisplayText(Chinese text) in a C program to display the designated Chinese text. For an example see Figure 6-4.

Figure 6-4 Using Simplified Chinese Solaris Operating Environment DPS

Simplified Chinese Solaris software provides TrueType support in DPS.