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

[Koaunghi Un]

Hi, Werner.

For the question about small-sized SoraWin font, the correct answer was already 
suggested.

For the normal-shaped Hangul fonts with less file size, I suggest to use gothic 
fonts.  There are also many other type of fonts, which are specially shaped.  
Some fonts need only one set of each Cho, Jung and Jong Jamos, resulting 
smaller file size.  But it could not be so small as other european fonts.  As 
long as I remember, some hundreds of kB should it be.  It is because there 
should be composite informations in the font for 11172 modern Korean syllables. 
 But the shape of font is not normal in traditional manner.

I suggest, not to expect smaller in size and normal in shape at the same time.


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


> 
> 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