December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
Content preview from CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition
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How Many Glyphs Can a Font Include?
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Carefully note how the horizontal strokes of the KozMinPr6N-Heavy glyph are signif-
icantly thinner than those of the KozMinPr6N-Regular glyph, but that the horizontal
strokes of HeiseiMinStd-W9 and HeiseiMinStd-W3 are nearly identical in relative thick-
ness. is is merely one of many ways in which typeface designs are distinguished from
one another.
How Many Glyphs Can a Font Include?
When building fonts that include glyphs for CJKV characters, one obvious concern is le
size. Another is how many glyphs can be included, especially because Unicode version
5.1 nally breaks the 100,000-character barrier. Are there limitations on le size or the
number of glyphs? Any limitations could be exposed by using the tools that build fonts,
such as AsiaFont Studio, or by using the fonts on the clients that make use them, meaning
OSes, applications, and printers.
Being a professional CJKV font developer, the largest CIDFont resource that I have ever
built contains 55,880 CIDs (Character ID, meaning glyphs) and is approximately 40 MB
in size. It contains glyphs for all the characters in CNS 11643-1992 and CNS 11643-1986
Plane 15 and was developed specically for printing Appendix G of the rst edition of this
book. It continues to be used for this edition in the form of an OpenType font.
ere was once a project in Japan whose goal was to build
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