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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Kword kudos!!  Many, many thanks!
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2002-01-03 20:17:56
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Hello Ray!

On Thursday 03 January 2002 02:19, Ray wrote:
[...]
|
|   Lastly, would it be possible to include japanese font sizes
|   larger than 72 as a standard feature?  My hope is to be
|   able to create large (10cm x 20cm) flashcards--the current
|   72 size only gives a kanji about a fourth that size.  It
|   works adequately, but giant sizes would be very useful.
|   Again, perhaps this is something that is Kword independent,
|   in which case please don't trouble yourselves.  If anyone
|   on your Japanese team knows how this might be done, I'd be
|   very appreciative.  The technical aspect of how a letter
|   (or kanji) gets turned into a scalable font is something
|   that's always been a bit of a mystery to me.  :-)
|

what you need to do in order to obtain good Japaneese scalable TrueType fonts 
is:
* reboot to Windows
* launch MS IE and go to some Japaneese web site
* MS IE will prompt you wether you want to install "Japanese text support"
Answer "yes", and after few minutes 9assuming that you are on dial-up, 
otherwise it will be faster) MS IE will download and install Japaneese fonts.

Than go to c:\windows\fonts directory and check what filtes exactly 
Windows/MS IE installed.
Than install those fonts either via KFontInstaller or 
- copy font to <your fonts dirctory listed in XftConfig>
 (I assume you have RENDER exte3nsion and Anti-Aliasing enabled, and your 
XFree86 version is at least XF 4.1.0)
- run from the command prompt / console 
#xftcache
this command will update cache of installed fonts and add Japaneese fonts to 
the list of available fonts in KWord.

Hope this helps.

|
|   Sincerely,
|
|   Ray Bartlett
|   Boston University
|   English Dept.

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