The Adobe-Japan1-6 Character Collection

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1 The Adobe-Japan1-6 Character Collection Its History, Development & Future Prospects Ken Lunde Senior Computer Scientist CJKV Type Development Adobe Systems Incorporated IMUG 08/18/ Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.

2 What is a Character Collection? A character collection is a static glyph set in which each glyph is identified by a unique integer value called a CID CID Character IDentifier A character collection is uniquely named /Registry Its developer, such as Adobe /Ordering Its purpose, such as Japan1 /Supplement Its incremental additions, such as 6 For building CID-keyed fonts Naked-CID, sfnt-cid, and OpenType (CID/CFF) 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 2

3 Adobe-Japan1-0 8,284 glyphs CIDs 0 through 8283 Developed in late 1991 or early :1 correspondence with OCF glyph set OCF Original Composite Font Two JIS90 kanji of OCF Heisei fonts excluded 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 3

4 Adobe-Japan additional glyphs 8,359 in total CIDs 8284 through 8358 Developed in late 1992 or early 1993 JIS90 (two kanji) and KanjiTalk7 character set 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 4

5 Adobe-Japan additional glyphs 8,720 in total CIDs 8359 through 8719 Developed in late 1992 or early 1993 Simultaneous with Adobe-Japan1-1 IBM Selected Kanji character set 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 5

6 Adobe-Japan additional glyphs 9,354 in total CIDs 8720 through 9353 Developed in 09/1998 Pre-rotated glyphs for OTF vertical writing OTF OpenType Font 90-degree rotation for all non full-width glyphs Accessed through vrt2 GSUB feature GSUB Glyph SUBstitution (an OpenType table) 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 6

7 Adobe-Japan1-3 (cont d) 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 7

8 Adobe-Japan1-4 6,090 additional glyphs 15,444 in total CIDs 9354 through Developed in close cooperation with leading Japanese type foundries Development began in early 1997 Three drafts were developed Development completed on 02/21/ Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 8

9 Adobe-Japan1-4 (cont d) To satisfy most commercial and professional publishing needs The first character collection to effectively leap beyond character set standards Additional proportional Latin and italic forms Third- and quarter-width forms, mostly numerals Latin, kana, and kanji ligatures Slash and nut fractions Annotated forms Specialized punctuation 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 9

10 Adobe-Japan1-4 (cont d) Writing-direction specific kana glyphs Ruby glyphs Full-size, meant to be shrunk to 50 percent Over 2,000 kanji Joyo Kanji traditional forms Additional JIS78 forms JIS83 forms JIS X Ideographic Supplement 1 (918 kanji) K-JIS kanji Known or otherwise requested kanji variants 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 10

11 Adobe-Japan1-5 4,873 additional glyphs 20,317 in total CIDs through Developed in close cooperation with Apple Development completed in 09/2002 Full JIS X 0213:2000 & NLC support JIS X 0213:2004 support needed no new glyphs NLC National Language Council [of Japan] 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 11

12 Adobe-Japan1-5 (cont d) Additional Pro glyphs for Mac OS X 10.2 Proportional kana Additional proportional Latin and italic forms Additional kanji variants 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 12

13 Adobe-Japan1-6 2,741 additional glyphs 23,058 in total CIDs through Development completed on 03/05/2004 Full JIS X & U-PRESS support Most of JIS X already included Most of U-PRESS developed by Kyodo News and formerly called K-JIS already included Additional JIS78 & JIS X 0213:2004 forms 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 13

14 Adobe-Japan1-6 (cont d) The Adobe-Japan2-0 character collection is now deprecated Originally published to support JIS X Full support for all JIS standards Cross-platform Windows supports JIS X 0212, not JIS X 0213 Mac OS X supports JIS X 0213, not JIS X 0212 Font bundled with Acrobat Version 7.0 Kozuka Mincho Pro-VI Regular Pro-VI Regular 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 14

15 Adobe-Japan1-6 Resources Adobe Tech Note # Radical/Stroke Reference For all 14,664 kanji in Adobe-Japan1-6 Unicode CMap files UTF-8, UTF-16 & UTF-32 with 15,682 mappings 7,501 glyphs are unencoded Soon-to-be-released versions for Unicode 4.1 Only eight additional mappings were necessary 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 15

16 Prospects for Adobe-Japan1-7 Variation Selectors For handling the unencoded kanji Additional U-PRESS glyphs New version published post Adobe-Japan1-6 Additional JIS X forms 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 16

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