You did not provide any information about the the actual API for drawing UTF-8 strings. Is there sample code you could point to?
Also, the TrueType fonts that I have experimented with are very blurry at font sizes 10pt or less. Only bit mapped fonts work well enough. Thanks. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Anthony Thyssen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 09:43:07 -0800 > Greg Denton <[email protected]> wrote: > > | ..er..I didn't mention ISO-8859. How is UTF-8 supported with fonts? > | Which API's and fonts should be used? In particular, on a linux box > | (CentOS 5.2)? > | > | I assumed the iso10646-1 fonts would work as they seemed to be > | designed for UTF-8. > | > Generally you would use the TTF fonts. but not all have all the UTF-8 > character defined (there are a lot of them). Especially the Chinese > Characters which have 3 to 4 times more than ALL the other sets combined! > > Microsoft Arial Family and others define most of them. > The Microsoft Mincho Font defines the Asian characters. > > Under Linux the packages cjkunifonts-ukai and cjkunifonts-uming > provides TTF fonts ukai.ttf and uming.ttf for chinese > with lots of symbolic links from any other places to the same fonts. > > I have no idea about MacOSX > > > Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[email protected]> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Why are they called "permissions" when they won't let you do anything? > -- The Joy of the Tech > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Anthony's Home is his Castle http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/ > _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
