CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

Output Tips and Tricks

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Historical Korean printing issues

PostScript printing of Korean text on Mac OS (meaning prior to Mac OS X), unlike for

Chinese and Japanese text, took one of two forms:

One-byte printing•

Two-byte printing•

e one-byte printing method assumed that the Korean fonts resident on the PostScript

printer were constructed as a series of one-byte–encoded Type 1 fonts—in other words,

not a genuine composite font. e two-byte printing method is more along the lines of

Chinese and Japanese printing, in which the Korean fonts that are resident on the Post-

Script printer are genuine composite fonts. A Control Panel, included with Mac OS-KH,

called Hangul Jojung ( hangeul jojung), controlled what printing method was to

be used. As we discovered at Adobe Systems shortly aer Apple’s Korean Language Kit

was released at the end of 1996, this Control Panel was not included. e result was that

only one-byte–encoded Korean fonts on PostScript printers would work. Apple subse-

quently released this Control Panel for KLK users.

Output Tips and Tricks

Printing CJKV documents can be problematic for some users, depending on their hard-

ware and soware environment. Here I present some tips and tricks that may help some

readers to produce CJKV documents in unusual environments.

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Creating CJKV Documents for Non-CJKV Systems

One of the most common questions I get asked is how t