Re: [Freetype] RE: Freetype digest, Vol 1 #265 - 1 msg

[Werner LEMBERG]

I've CCed the author of HLaTeX, UN Koaunghi, which has similar
problems to reduce the size of PK files.  Maybe he can give a concise
answer.

My own remark: With Hanja, you *can't* reduce the size of such a font
below some Megabytes due to the many thousand ideographic glyphs.
With Hangul, maybe, in combination with clever subglyph handling
(either within the `glyf' table or using `GSUB' and `GPOS').  Fact is
that 99% of daily use is Hangul only; AFAIK, the use of Hanja in daily
life is quite restricted today (mainly to newspapers to quote Asian
names properly and to save some space in headers).


    Werner


Nir:

> My intention is to display Korean fonts on a real time application,
> and font sizes of hundreds of Kbytes are too much for me.
>
> To your knowledge can I display normal Korean fonts (I mean fonts
> that are used normally by Korean on Electronic display, like
> Cellular phones or PDAs) with normal TTF file size (like western
> ones) around 50-100K?  As far as I understood the Sora font will not
> be seem normal to most Korean people?  Do you think of an option for
> a light TTF file that will seem like normal Korean font?

Antoine:

> > does anyone know of .ttf file of Korean fonts that is quite small ?
> 
> Well, I have here a 34K font (name is SoraWin).  It is badly hinted,
> but correctly hinted it should be about 50K big.
> 
> The point is, the glyphs are jamos, not normal Korean characters.
> So to use it, you type ql, and you ket the syllable ka.  And with
> qLQ, you get kak; if you know Korean, you will understand the trick:
> q if the glyph for (upper) k; l is the glyph -a, when alone; and L
> is for -a-, that is, when there is another glyph below; and Q is for
> -k, that is the below form of the k.
>
> Of course, as a result, there is no difference between the k in ka
> and the k in say kin, which results in something quite difficult to
> read for any casual Korean...
> 
> > As far as I have seen the average size is around 1000K which is
> > huge....  Does anyone know where can I find much smaller font
> > files?
> 
> I do not believe you'll find anything useful that will be smaller;
> in fact, the ones I have here are more in the 3-5M size rather than
> 1M.  Of course, this is probably because they have all these Hanja
> characters... Only Hangul can be probably much lighter, but it then
> depends on your needs...