I am looking for a way to install hebrew fonts in my matlab (R2009b,windows 7). I am not looking for solution to display or read hebrew charecters, but a way to be able to work with hebrew like in english letters (for strings purpusese). the problem that got me here is that I have sound files that their name is in hebrew and I need to read them from matlab. but when I am trying to read the list of files (using ls) I get question marks where the hebrew letters were.
The command listfonts will list all available system fonts. If no Hebrew font appears in the list, then you'll have to install one at the OS level, such as AdobeHebrew (alternatively, Google "free hebrew fonts").
It's possible that the font you're using in Matlab simply doesn't have the Hebrew font glyphs ("characters"). So the missing characters are substituted with '?'. You can "link" a font to another in the GDI by editing the Registry at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink.
For example: Let's assume your copy of Matlab is using the font Consolas, and you want it to use the font Miriam for glyphs that don't exist in Consolas. To get that to happen, you need to add a String value to the Registry key above. The name of the string must be Consolas and it should have a value of mriamc.ttf. That tells the Windows GDI to render missing glyphs in the font named "Consolas" using the font in the file "mriamc.ttf".
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I am struggling to convert my PCL file to PDF using GhostScript. The conversion itself is not issue, but it appears that Cyrillic is problem. As you can see on attached picture, it considers only the colon and period symbol.
I tried different fonts and symbol sets, but I never got correct result.
I was also trying to convert cyrillic TTF to soft font via PCL Paraphernalia but I was not successfull with using the font in my PCL.
Using following command:
gpcl6win64.exe -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOCACHE -dRENDERTTNOTDEF -sOutputFile=output.pdf CYR.prn
My file:
PDF output:
Please advise.
Thank you
At a guess, you have not supplied the font, or the font you are using does not contain Cyrillic glyphs. Colon and period are obviously going to be present in any Latin font, Cyrillic glyphs generally are not. Any glyphs not present in the font will be replaced by the /.notdef glyph, which is usually a non-marking glyph (except for TrueType fonts where it's usually a hollow square).
If that's your entire PCL file then I can't say I'm surprised it doesn't work as you expect, you haven't downloaded a font. I don't know PCL well enough to say exactly what that minimal file is doing but here's a thought: try using gpclwin64 to render the PCL to the display. If that doesn't work then there's no way it's going to result in a PDF file which works.
Basically you're going to have to download a soft font containing the glyphs you want to use encoded at the character codes you want to use.
NB: I'd strongly advise against using -dNOCACHE because that will hurt performance on large text-heavy files.
I would like to create a postscript or pdf figure with enhanced notations, italic or bold Latin characters, and sometimes (regular) Greek characters. How to do that in general?
Let's say I downloaded CMU Sans Serif, a font that has glyphs for all the strange characters I ever want to use. I converted them to pfa with an online tool and copied the files to the path of working directory.
Expectations
Let's say I'd like to produce the following notation somewhere.
What I tried: original
I create a gnuplot script encoded in a utf-8 file (without BOM) with the content
set term postscript eps enhanced "CMUSansSerif" 15 fontfile add 'CMUSansSerif.pfa' fontfile add 'CMUSansSerif-Oblique.pfa' fontfile add 'CMUSansSerif-Bold.pfa'
set encoding utf8
set o "print.eps"
p x t "Label: {/CMUSansSerif-Bold important }{/CMUSansSerif-Oblique note}: ∫⟨α₂ + β²⟩ = äßű"
set o
and executed with the newest gnuplot, version 5.2.6.
What I got
I used a vector graphics editor to open the eps file and relevant part looks like this:
What I also tried
According to Ethan's answer I added adobeglyphnames to the termoptions. It made at least the letters available but other Unicode symbols are still unavailable. The result is:
Question
What went wrong? How could I produce the desired output?
So many possibilities, where things can go wrong: Is the font not suitable for this task? Did I download a wrong version of it? Did the pfa converter do a bad job? Did I include the font files incorrectly? Was there something wrong with the set encoding? Do I use a bad vector graphics editor? Do I have wrong fonts installed and the vector graphics editor tries to use them?
I am afraid that the answer is that in general PostScript is the wrong tool for this. If it is at all possible for you to work with PDF output instead, I suggest you do that. It is even possible the resulting PDF file can be translated to a PostScript file by standard tools (e.g. pdf2ps). That is likely to work if the non-ascii characters are limited to Greek and other relatively common symbols but I don't know how much of the full unicode tables are covered by those standard tools.
If you really need to produce PostScript with additional unicode characters directly from gnuplot, you can find full instructions and sample character encoding tables in the gnuplot distribution files:
.../term/PostScript/unicode_maps.README
.../term/PostScript/unicode_big.map
.../term/PostScript/unicode_small.map
I am not familiar with the online tool font conversion you used but probably it failed because it did not have, or at any rate did not use, suitable character encoding tables for the desired conversion.
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One other thought. There are two ways that a *.pfa font can encode unicode characters that are common enough to have a name assigned by Adobe for use in PostScript. (1) It may use generic names like uni0439 for Unicode code points. (2) It may use Adobe-specific names from the list here:
agl-aglfn glyph list
When selecting PostScript output from gnuplot you can tell it which of these two conventions is used by the font you provide. The default is "noadobeglyphnames".
set term postscript {no}adobeglyphnames
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(recipe for using "set term pdfcairo")
Font handling is unfortunately system-specific, so I cannot tell you how to install or configure fonts on all your target machines. I will show you a procedure that works on a linux desktop that uses the fontconfig utilities for system font handling.
Create directory /home/share/fonts/CMUSans
Add this directory to the search list in file /etc/fonts/local.conf
Copy *.ttf files into this directory from the CMU Sans Serif zip archive you link to in your original query. The system fontconfig system tools should now be able to find these fonts. By inspection they self-report as "CMU Sans Serif"
in gnuplot (tested with version 5.2.6)
set term pdfcairo font "CMU Sans Serif,15"
set output 'enhanced_utf8.pdf'
load 'enhanced_utf8.dem'
convert output pdf file to PostScript with the following command
pdf2ps enhanced_utf8.pdf enhanced_utf8.ps
Screenshot of the result is shown below
It seems that CMU Sans Serif doesn't contain the UTF-8 characters you are asking for. Check the font with a font editor like Birdfont. Although the webpage shows symbols you want to use, the font itself does not contain them. However, your browser may show symbols, but they are just fallback representations from other fonts.
I'm using Windows 10 pro and for some reason when I'm having Chinese character in any coding related program which not allows setting directly a Chinese font, most of the characters shown in a normal way and some in a different and smaller font, everything I tried, including changing font, change encoding, adding Chinese language pack to windows or changing windows to Chinese did not work, can someone try help me to fix it? Thanks!
Characters in Notepad++:
Characters in Eclipse:
The blurriness of the two too small characters 门 and 别 indicates that they are missing in the chosen font and have been replaced by characters of a bitmap/raster font.
Make sure to have a font installed and chosen that contains all the characters you want to use:
门 (U+95E8) font support
别 (U+522B) font support
For example, the font BabelStone Han (download link at the bottom of the page) supports these characters.
In Eclipse, the text editor font can be changed in Window > Preferences: General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts: Basic > Text Font.
I have a NSPopUpButton which contains either English or Japanese Strings read from a plist file according to the System's Language. Now when the Language is English I am able to change the font size by using code such as -
[auxStatePopup setFont: [NSFont fontWithName:#"Helvetica-BoldOblique" size:10.0]];
but Using such technique I am not able to change Japanese font size even if I tried by setting some Japanese font name which I googled and found out.
I want to do that because Japanese characters move slightly up when used. I intend to manipulate that upward movement by decreasing font size.
Thanks for any help..
OR
any way to move text in NSPopupButton downwards?
My impression is that the two samples are not using the same font. Please try to put a text with characters from both sets and see what happens.
Also try not to customize the font size and even the font face.
I also suspect that the text rendering engine may had overridden some of your changes due to the text length. iOS text rendering may try to change the font size of letter spacing if the text does not fit the control. So make some tests with shorter texts.
BTW, I think that you were mean to say that you want bigger font size for Japanese not smaller. In the screenshots the Japanese text is already too small to be properly read by anyone.
Suppose you have a string with text in two or more scripts. When you use a GDI function like TextOut, (modern versions of) Windows will do "font-linking". That is, GDI will draw what it can with your selected font and draw the rest in an appropriate font that it chooses automagically. For example, if part of your text is in English (using the Roman alphabet), and part of it is Chinese (using CJK characters), and you have Arial selected, the English portion will be drawn in Arial, and the Chinese portion will be drawn in another font that has the CJK glyphs.
My question is, is there a way to determine which fonts TextOut will choose (or did choose) for the font linking?
I have to draw some text with the low-level Uniscribe API, which doesn't do automatic font-linking. I've implemented my own font-linking, but sometimes my algorithm chooses a different font than TextOut does for the same text. I'm trying to understand the Windows algorithm better, but I'm not real good at identifying fonts on sight (especially in unfamiliar scripts).
The font is selected by a registry entry. It is well described in this article. Quoting the relevant part:
If font linking is enabled on your
device, you can examine the registry
by enumerating the subkeys of the
registry key at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink
to determine the mappings of linked
fonts to base fonts. You can add links
by using Regedit to create additional
subkeys.