Posts in Category "Using Fonts"

“字形” 和 “字型”

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Hua Gu | Comments (0)

“字形” 和 “字型”(zì xíng) 两个词的读音完全相同，但在用法上却有差异，下面是一个简要总结。
字形：一个可辨认的图形符号，它不依赖于任何特定的设计，特指某个字的形状。当一系列的字形具有某种统一风格时，就形成体的概念，可以用”字体”来描述，比如楷体，宋体，黑体。

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Adobe CS4 & Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Hua Gu | Comments (0)

　　　Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) 发布在即，很多用户非常关心Adobe软件与Snow Lepopard 的兼容性问题，关于一些热点问题的答复即将发布在Adobe的相关网页上。

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如何排查Mac OS X上的字体问题

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Hua Gu | Comments (0)

　在Mac OS X 上有可能会遇到字库无法正常使用的情况，比如已安装的字库不显示在软件的字体列表中、或者字库无法正确显示字符，再或者字库安装之后软件无法正常运行。该如何排查这些问题呢？总的来说,可以从五个方面进行排查。
１、字库是否安装正确；
２、系统字库缓存数据是否被损坏；
３、软件字库缓存数据是否被损坏；
４、字库本身是否有问题，比如字库数据被损坏、字库有错误或兼容性不好；
５、如果使用了第三方字库管理软件，是否该管理软件在控制字库方面出现了问题；

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字体度量单位

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Hua Gu | Comments (0)

English
在InDesign 中日韩版本的“ 首选项”调版中提供了更改度量单位的选项（“ 编辑”>“ 首选项”>“ 单位和增量”(Windows) 或“InDesign”>“ 首选项”>“ 单位和增量”(Mac OS) ），其中关于文字大小的单位有三种选择，它们分别是‘点’(pt)、‘级’(Q)、‘美式点’(ap)。

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Create Your Own “招財進寳” Glyph

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Hua Gu | Comments (8)

Chinese
When the Spring Festival comes, Chinese people have many traditional customs to create a warm and festive atmosphere. One of these customs is to plaster a large ideograph “福” on the door, to wish good fortune and happiness throughout the New Year, and some businesses would like to plaster their rooms with a special character bao.png to wish plentiful money and treasures to come in the New Year. This glyph is composed of four characters that are “招財進寳”, “財” means money, and “寳”means treasures. Actually, this glyph is not a real or genuine hanzi, and no character set includes it, so we can not enter this glyph directly via standard fonts. Fortunately, SING (Smart INdependent Glyphlets) technology offers us a way to create and use this character. Please follow these DIY (Do It Yourself) instructions for this glyph.

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用SING来造字

Posted on November 27, 2008 by Hua Gu | Comments (0)

English
任何一款字库所能包含的字符数都是有限的，对于中日韩文字排版而言，即使是使用超大字符集的字库，在某些情形下还是可能会遇到缺字的状况，特别是在整理一些古籍资料时，这种问题会显得更加突出。如何解决缺字的问题？

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Four Simplified Chinese Fonts bundled with CS4

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Hua Gu | Comments (5)

Many of you might have seen Adobe Heiti Std and Adobe Song Std in CS3, a good news is that two additional simplified Chinese fonts bundled with CS4, they are Adobe Kaiti Std and Adobe FangSong Std. All four fonts are OpenType (PostScript flavor) format, and are based on GB18030-2000 character set standard.

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