Using Traditional Chinese PostScript Fonts and DPS Facilities

The Traditional Chinese Solaris operating environment provides the Chinese PostScript fonts listed in Table 6-3.

Table 6-3 Traditional Chinese Solaris Operating Environment PostScript Fonts

Font Name	Description
Kai-Medium	Alias of Kai-Medium-EUC-H.
Kai-Medium-EUC-H	Kai-Medium font, EUC encoding, horizontal display; can be used like a Roman font.
Kai-Medium-EUC-V	Kai-Medium font, EUC encoding, vertical display; can be used like a Roman font.
Kai-Medium-H	Kai-Medium font, horizontal display, to composite with a Roman font.
Kai-Medium-V	Kai-Medium font, vertical display, to composite with a Roman font.
Ming-Light	Alias of Ming-Light-EUC-H.
Ming-Light-EUC-H	Ming-Light font, EUC encoding, horizontal display; can be used like a Roman font.
Ming-Light-EUC-V	Ming-Light font, EUC encoding, vertical display; can be used like a Roman font.
Ming-Light-H	Ming-Light font, horizontal display, to composite with a Roman font.
Ming-Light-V	Ming-Light font, vertical display, to composite with a Roman font.

Of the fonts in this table, you can use the following just as you use Roman fonts:

• Kai-Medium

• Kai-Medium-EUC-H

• Kai-Medium-EUC-V

• Ming-Light

• Ming-Light-EUC-H

• Ming-Light-EUC-V

  Figure 6-5 shows the use of Kai-Medium and Ming-Light.

Figure 6-5 Display PostScript Output Showing Traditional Chinese Text Sample

Creating Composite Roman and Traditional Chinese Fonts

You can create composite fonts using one Roman font and one of the following Traditional Chinese fonts:

• Ming-Light-H

• Ming-Light-V

• Kai-Medium-H

• Kai-Medium-V

  For example, the following PostScript code defines a sample composite font, Times-Italic+Kai-Medium, which uses Times-Italic for ASCII characters and Song-Medium horizontal font for Traditional Chinese characters:

/Times-Italic+Kai-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
                	/Kai-Medium-H findfont
        	] def
	currentdict
	end
	definefont pop

Using Traditional Chinese Fonts in DPS Programming

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

	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
        	/Kai-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 example, as shown in Figure 6-6.

Figure 6-6 Using Traditional Chinese Solaris DPS

Simplified Chinese Solaris software provides TrueType support in DPS.