CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

Output via Printing

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PostScript device is decreasing. In addition, even with the ability to incrementally down-

load fonts, some CJKV fonts may be restricted in such a way that prevents incremental

downloading. Static downloading may still be required.

As alluded to early on in this section, the printing workow has changed, and the font

burden is now on the host rather than the printer. is new printing workow uses Ado-

be Acrobat and Portable Document Format (PDF) as a reliable way to create a complete

digital image of a document, meaning that all of the glyphs and other page elements are

embedded into the PDF le. When printed, the embedded glyphs become part of the data

stream that is sent to the printer. Because the printer no longer has the font burden, the

chance of mismatching host- and printer-resident fonts is minimized, and to some extent,

eliminated.

Output via Printing

Many years ago, one could print CJKV text using only bitmapped fonts. In fact, some

printers required that the bitmapped characters be resident in the printer hardware itself,

meaning in its ROM. As discussed in Chapter 6, bitmapped fonts are not ideal—and quite

frankly, an extremely poor choice—for printing high-quality CJKV text. Fortunately,

there are now many ways you can improve the quality of CJKV text when output to a

wide variety of devices.

Printing devices range from low-resolution ...