December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
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included prebuilt ATC fonts that serve to simplify the overall user experience. Of course,
kana-only fonts can be used standalone, but the user experience is much better if they are
combined with a font that includes a complete set of kanji, given that typical Japanese text
includes both kana and kanji.
Adobe Type Composer rearranged only 90pv-RKSJ-H– and 83pv-RKSJ-H–based Post-
Script fonts, both of which were accessible only on Mac OS. is means that the user-
dened character area corresponds to only Shi-JIS–encoded (aka “RKSJ”) fonts.
Note that Adobe Type Composer was simply a frontend to a very powerful font rearrange-
ment technology available on all PostScript devices capable of supporting CID-keyed
fonts. A PostScript ProcSet (Procedure Set—a fancy name for a PostScript program) called
AdobeTypeComposer is made available on these PostScript devices. Later in this chapter
you will learn the structure of a rearranged font resource and how to create your own.
Although Adobe Type Composer is no longer used, due to its limitations, comparable
rearranged font functionality, referred to as Composite Fonts, is now available in higher-
end applications. is is covered in the next section.
Composite Font Functionality Within Applications
Some applications provide functionality, comparable to what Adobe Type Composer of-
fered, called Composite Fonts, which are ...
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