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From: "Richard Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Kenneth Whistler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Richard Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 4:45
I hate to disagree, but...
At 11:41 2003-06-21 +0930 Saturday, Kevin Brown wrote:
Jain, Pankaj (MED, TCS) wrote:
>I am generating the PDF using XSLFO/FOP and Arial Unicode MS font
>for Global languages.And during Implementation I found that Bold/Italics
>character are not appearing in bold/Itali
From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> At 16:45 -0700 2003-06-20, Richard Cook wrote:
> >Of course, in pop e-print, nearly everything that can be done to a
> >character is done ... including Bold-Ital-Outline-Shadow ...
>
> Hey, there's no reason only Latin typography should be filled with
Jain, Pankaj (MED, TCS) wrote:
>I am generating the PDF using XSLFO/FOP and Arial Unicode MS font
>for Global languages.And during Implementation I found that Bold/Italics
>character are not appearing in bold/Italic in PDF which was coming
>there is any Issue with Arial Unicode Font for Bold/I
Philippe Verdy wrote on 06/20/2003 03:29:17 PM:
> I think that Italic is to avoid for most Asian scripts, as readers are
not
> used to it. For Arabic it may cause problems because of the placement
> of diacritic points.
Thai type designers are extremely creative and not afraid of doing with
Thai
At 16:45 -0700 2003-06-20, Richard Cook wrote:
Of course, in pop e-print, nearly everything that can be done to a
character is done ... including Bold-Ital-Outline-Shadow ...
Hey, there's no reason only Latin typography should be filled with vulgarism...
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 02:44 , Kenneth Whistler wrote:
What is true is that use of italicized text is unusual
in Chinese or Japanese body text--certainly not with the frequency
or same range of functions as occurs in Latin typography.
Bold text is not that unusual, however.
In precomputer Ch
At 14:44 -0700 2003-06-20, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> I think that Italic is to avoid for most Asian scripts, as readers are not
used to it.
For body text, in documents or on web pages, I would agree.
A wide range of oblique styles have been used in many Indian scripts
for a very long time now.
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 02:04, Michael Everson wrote:
> Roozbeh informs me that "oblique [Naskh] is a standard things
> nowadays, specially since it can usually be done automatically in
> software. Both slanted and backslanted." Certainly I saw italic
> signage in Kabul.
Just to confirm.
BTW, o
Philippe Verdy,
> But it's true that complex scripts like Han will be poorly rendered in Bold
> or Italic... But does someone actually wants to read Han text with Bold
> characters (or even worse slanted with Italic) ?
What is true is that use of italicized text is unusual
in Chinese or Japanese
At 17:03 -0400 2003-06-20, John Cowan wrote:
Michael Everson scripsit:
>I think that Italic is to avoid for most Asian scripts, as readers
>are not used to it. For Arabic it may cause problems because of the
>placement of diacritic points.
It sounds as though you are guessing.
Well, I certainl
At 22:29 +0200 2003-06-20, Philippe Verdy wrote:
I think that Italic is to avoid for most Asian scripts, as readers
are not used to it. For Arabic it may cause problems because of the
placement of diacritic points.
It sounds as though you are guessing.
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *
From: "Christopher John Fynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> In Windows, if you specify bold with "Arial Unicode" the Windows
> font rasterizer will generally try to imitate bold
> artificially - but this often looks pretty bad. Windows will
> also try to imitate italic by slanting the font.
The Arial Unic
- Original Message -
From: "Jain, Pankaj (MED, TCS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Edward H Trager'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 6:37 PM
Subject: RE: Problem with Arial Unicode MS font for BOLD/ITAL
> Edward,
>thanks for the response. Is it possible to integrate glyph for
> bold and italic in arialuni.ttf or can I have one font which support all
> the languages and also have related glyph for bold and italic.
Bold and italic need to be separate font files, and these do not exist for
Aria
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Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:23 PM
To: Jain, Pankaj (MED, TCS)
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problem with Arial Unicode MS font for BOLD/ITALICS in PDF
To my knowledge, MS Arial Unicode does not contain glyphs for bold and
italic styles. For Latin and the other blocks of Unicode
To my knowledge, MS Arial Unicode does not contain glyphs for bold and
italic styles. For Latin and the other blocks of Unicode covered in the
standard Arial font, there are bold and italic versions:
arial.ttf- Standard arial
arialbd.ttf - bold
arialbi.ttf - bold italic
ariali.ttf - itali
Jain, Pankaj (MED, TCS) wrote:
I am generating the PDF using XSLFO/FOP and Arial Unicode MS font
for Global languages.And during Implementation I found that Bold/Italics
character are not appearing in bold/Italic in PDF which was coming
properly perfect with other font like courier. Please
Hi
All,
I
am generating the PDF using XSLFO/FOP and Arial Unicode MS font for Global
languages.And during Implementation I found that Bold/Italics character are not
appearing in bold/Italic in PDF which was coming
properly perfect with other font like courier. Please let me know if the
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