Re: Pmingliu Chinese Font Download
Katerine Aldrige
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As you can see, most sites (at least news sites) rely on system fonts. The key here is that the visitors of these websites come from HK or Taiwan, etc. and the web designer can "safely" assume that the visitor will have support for at least one of the fonts (installed on their system). If not, Chinese language OS-s (whether Windows, OSX or Linux) will typically have at least one font that supports CJK glyphs, so their browser has a fallback font in case none of the listed font-family values can be mapped to a system font. On Linux, even if your system is not in Chinese, you most likely have a fallback font that support CJK characters, on my Ubuntu in Firefox it's Droid Sans Fallback that the browser uses, as my computer currently has almost no CJK fonts installed.
If you plan to design a website that uses Chinese text, you should prefer sans-serif fonts over serif fonts, as the latter ones do not look nice when the font-size is small. Most Chinese websites actually do so.
If you are planning to use English (Latin character text) and Chinese, make sure that you put the English (Latin character) font to the front of you font stack, otherwise you will end up with those fonts not displaying at all. The reason is that most Chinese fonts have support for Latin characters, but those Latin glyphs usually do not look very nice. So if you want your English text to be set in Roboto and your Chinese in PMingLiu use:
To be on the safe side, define a variety of fonts in your stack, with listing the ones you prefer before the other ones. You shouldn't be afraid of listing 6-7 different fonts, your CSS line is just a few bytes, so this will not bloat your code by modern standards. Also, you can see from the above examples that some font names are typed out in Chinese, which might trick you, if the font is saved under a pinyin name, so you can type out both the Chinese and the pinyin spelled name as separate declarations to be fully covered, e.g. font-family: ..., "黑体", "HeiTi", ...
You should never use Windows fonts only, not everyone is on a Windows computer, infact most people now browse the internet on a smartphone or tablet, which are typically running an OS other than Windows. These devices are unlikely to have Windows fonts installed (mostly because of copyright issues). Android devices usually have Droid Sans Fallback to display Chinese characters.
You can not just assume that "OS takes care for everything". Probably you have a preference for a certain font, which makes your site look good, but that is not necessarily the font your browser will pick by default. There are many odd looking Chinese fonts that you want to avoid, so look around on a few websites, use the Developer Tools module of your browser and check what fonts are being used, how font stacks are defined.
As you know, Chinese fonts are not easy to make because we have thousands of characters, so we only have a few fonts. The most used fonts are PMingLiU(serif), Microsoft JhengHei(san-serif) and image font for headings like in Apple's website.
Also, Windows XP or older do not have the sans serif 微軟正黑體, only PMingLiU. Windows default Chinese font in browser is PMingLiU, serif. While Mac uses sans serif font by default, HeiTi TC and HeiTi SC. In short:
Is there any way to get all the characters I want to use to render correctly at the same time? Preferably, I'd be able to enter the text as-is without having to add any special containers for font-switching.
However, I am not so sure about 為 and 曾. For 曾, in the PMingLiu font, the top of the character is 八, whereas in the SimSun font, the top of the character is 丷. Note that in these two variants, the number of strokes remains the same (I personally find it easier tow write using the 丷 top, as I can never get the 八 well-proportioned!).
Any comments? Are there two or more commonly-accepted standards for writing certain Traditional Chinese characters (perhaps differences between Taiwan, Hong Kong and old-China fonts)? Or are they just differences between the printed form (宋書) and the pattern form (隸書)?
Still not clear. MS Mincho and MS Gothic both display 爲 7232 with outward spreading strokes, just like MingLiu's 為 70BA. It seems Japanese and Korean fonts mostly work that way. The fonts on my Mac confirm this.
The unicode standard does say "The shapes of the reference glyphs used in these code charts are not prescriptive. Considerable variation is to be expected." So there's probably some combination of the history of the Ming Light font families and a sense that the two glyphs aren't exactly identical that keeps the 為 shape from appearing in MingLiU fonts today. It does sort of wreck the radical indexing, though.
Question 2: I require 2 TTF font files (i.e. PMINGLIU.ttf and PMINGLIU-ExtB.ttf) for rendering different Chinese characters (e.g. ? in PMINGLIU-ExtB.ttf and 李 in PMINGLIU.ttf), how can I use PdfFormField.setFont() with 2 TTF fonts?
I've been experimenting with a number of traditional Chinese fonts on my computer, but I still have yet to figure out what the optimal font is for comfortable reading. Particularly when using Firefox, I'm constantly encountering characters which are barely legible, the strokes so close together that parts of the character look like black smudges. This is frustrating to me, because I'm always having to zoom in and out of certain sections of websites.
Could anybody suggest an optimal character set (Traditional Chinese), font size, and settings for reading? I'd also be willing to purchase a commercial font set, if it worked well. The set could also be Simplified, as long as it included Traditional as well, since I do all my reading in Traditional.
I looked into a company called DynaComware HK, but without any frame of reference, I'm not sure if their character sets would work for me. They seem to have a lot of different fonts, both simplified and traditional.
SimSun, I think, should be the most legible for reading on the computer screen. All the fonts that have "Hei" are blocky fonts with heavier lines. I think they would be even less legible for reading at smaller font sizes. They are more appropriate for making big posters.
I'm using Firefox 3.5.6 on Windows 7. I have the NoSquint plugin installed so I can permanently change the font size for any website. My default typeface for Traditional Chinese is Microsoft JhengHei. Here is a screenshot of a Wikipedia article with text size magnified to 120%.
This is a list of notable CJK fonts (computer fonts with a large range of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters). These fonts are primarily sorted by their typeface, the main classes being "with serif", "without serif" and "script". This article name the two first classes Ming and sans-serif (gothic) while further divide the "script" into several Chinese script styles.
But, as far as I'm aware - there is no font containing Chinese characters that will give you pixelized, arcade-alike image right from the box. Your best bet is using one of small-size fonts and artificially up-scale it in post processing (eg. Photoshop) while preserving hard edges for pixelized looks.
I'm afraid there's no easier solution than that. Availability of Chinese fonts is rather poor and if you want to find a font that reminds some specific style - usually it's on the edge of impossibility.
I tried to use Acrobat Reader XI and DC version to open a Chinese document, however, it prompts an error unable to embed a font "POHCGU+PMingLiU". I tried to install the Asian fonts pack but no luck! Anybody can have solution?? Thanks!
MingLIU was designed by DynaComware Corp. It has only one weight, with no italic style. In addition to Simplified Chinese characters, the font includes Japanese hiragana and katakana, bopomofo, and a variety of symbols, as well as capitals and lowercase letters for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets.
Hi,
In attachment there is solution with simple test code and simple document template. Also in attachment there is two documents created with test solution (doc and pdf). In pdf Chinese characters is missing in merge field.
On your forum we have find solution with PMingLiU font. But this does not work for us, font is already installed.
We have tested this on different configurations and system, we found that problem exists on Windows server 2008 DataCenter, on Windows 7 we do not have this problem. All system has installed PMingLiU font.
Hi Milan,
Thank you for additional information. In your document, the second line of Chinese text is formatted with Calibri font. This font actually does not contain glyphs for Chinese characters. So Aspose.Words tries to find an alternative font. On my side, it uses Arial Unicode font.
Please try installing this font on the server and see if this helps. If this font exists, try to remove it and install version of this font from your local PC.
Best regards,
Hi,
thank you for your answer. Installing Arial Unicode on all systems resolved problem.
Question, you said that Aspose.Words tries to find alternative font. Will Aspose.Word always use Arial Unicode font if font used in template does not exists? Also will Aspose.Word use font substitution defined in word document when generating PDF?
Another question, why is there difference between word and pdf document when Arial Unicode is missing?
No, Aspose.Words will not always use this fonts. Firat of all Aspose.Words tries to find font that is specified in the document. If this font does not exist or does not contains glyphs for charactes using in the document (as in your case) Aspose.Words tries to find an alternative. Arial Unicode is an alternative font for Asian characters.
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