Subject: Bitmap character generation

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 90 10:43:01 PST

I would like to add my opinion to the summary of [email-masked]
on Chinese Font and Font Storage.  I agree that it is labor intensive to
generate high quality electronic fonts.  However, there is a quick and dirty
way to generate bitmap Chinese fonts in a very inexpensive way.  By taking
advantage of the hardware scalability of scanners, we can scan in Chinese
fonts printed in dictionary, encyclopedia or caligraphy.  Since most of
those publication were printed hundreds of years ago, there should not be
any concern for infringing copyrights.  Once scanned in the computer, the
touch up work should be quite straight forward.  It probably only takes
a few man-weeks to create a complete set of Chinese fonts using this
approach.

Kwok Lai