Re: [links] Chinese font support?

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:32:16AM +0800, Harry Lin D332 (?????q) wrote:
> Thank you for your answer, 
> I have read that paragraph about adding fonts from ghostscript
> It only mentioned how to add a font in format *.pfb, *.afm, *.pfa, 
> Does ghostscript support a font in format *.ttf, too?

Not that I would know.

> 
> And I have another question,
> A Chinese font contains more than ten thousand characters, 
> After converting it to png images, it will generate a big amount of files, 
> And will all those files be compiled into the links browser?

Yes.

> Won't this make the browser binary file too big and cost a lot of memory when
> running links?

No - the binary should be mapped read-only, i. e. swapping out of memory
can be done in zero time (just delete the page) as opposed to swapping data
where a page has to be first written to the disk.

It's an equivalent of mapping the font data using mmap.

CL<
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karel Kulhavy
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 7:42 PM
> To: Links WWW browser mailing list
> Subject: Re: [links] Chinese font support?
> 
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 05:41:39PM +0800, Harry Lin D332 (?????q) wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does Links support for Chinese font now?
> 
> No only Japanese I think.
> 
> > 
> > In the previous discussion, 
> > 
> > Someone mentioned to create the Chinese characters to png files
> > 
> > But it is difficult to realize
> > 
> > Is there any other method?
> 
> It has to be in PNG. But you can create using some scripts from Ghostscript.
> It's described here:
> http://links.twibright.com/doc/links_doc_en.html
> 
> Only the font part was translated into English, ignore the rest in Czech.
> 
> CL<
> > 
> > Thanks!
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