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Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 17:02:22 +0800
From: Shann Wei-Chang <shann@math.ncu.edu.tw>
Subject: Print Chinese

> I expect the "target file" is already formatted into a laser printer
>  ready postscript file

No.  It is not the case.  The PostScript file needs the "fonts" to actually
draw the characters (in ink) onto the paper.  You didn't notice this
effect simply because the most frequently used fonts are "resident" inside
the PostScript laser printers.  However, those (35) fonts are all for
English alphabets (in fact, the ASCII printable characters).  The usual
PostScript printers have no idea how a Chinese could be drawn on a paper,
so we rely on two possible solutions for printing Chinese: (1) Buy a
PostScript laser printer with resident Chinese fonts.  Some of this type
of printers exist for the Macintosh world, but I do not know for any
other plateforms.  (2) Install sepcial programs on your machine, let
the program to render (give instructions on how to draw) the Chinese
characters on a PostScript printer.  We have installed two of such kind
of programs on our Sun Sparc workstations.  But I do not know, in your
situation, can you do the same thing?

-Shann