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Chinese Fonts -- I need them set
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I’m working on an album cover and have been asked to put a few Chinese characters into the artwork. My system is set up for Japanese, and I can set Japanese fonts, but these Chinese characters are ones which do not exist in the Japanese language. I’m trying to get this done by the end of the week. Would someone be able to type out a few characters in Chinese (I can send over a visual ref.), and send it to me either as paths in Illustrator (version 8 or earlier), hi-res raster file (TIFF, JPG, GIF, etc.)?
If not, I will try to cobble them together by breaking apart Japanese kanji and tweaking the bits and pieces. Thanks.
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hey there. i can do this for you. if you hit me with the characters and the pinyin (tho i can probably figure that out myself if need be). also if there’s a certain character style that would help. i only have the chinese fonts that come standard with osx, though.
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Hey, Eugene — just out of curiosity, what’s your level of facility with Chinese/Pinyin? Can you do translation/transliteration on your own? Or are you just talking about type handling here?
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im just talking about type handling. i can’t translate at all. i can barely read actually so i usually hit up a friend of mine on im to type the stuff in pinyin for me and then i match. i’m one of the illiterate ABC’s who can speak chinese but am lost with the newspaper.
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Ah, gotcha. Well, don’t forget that that makes you like 1000% more expert in Chinese type than, for example, me. I’m not even that good with Japanese…
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lessie. 1000% more than zero is . . . ;-)
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Eugene — thanks for the help. I’ve been slammed with another project today so I will get around to following up with details soon. The text I’m trying to set is “John Brown’s Body” I don’t know the pinyin for “Body” but I’m sure I can look it up on-line somewhere. Ironically, I have the characters but can’t read them, and you can write/speak the characters but not necessarily read them. That’s deep.
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hey there. could you email me the characters so i could see them and make sure i’m sending you the right ones?
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Hi, Eugene.
I couldn’t figure out how to copy and paste the JPG of Chinese characters directly into this LS posting, so I’ve sent it as an e-mail.
Thanks so much for looking into this.
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email is cool. unfortunately i’ll probably have to look in my junk mail folder. my filter is a little too aggressive i think.
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Let me know if there’s a better way for me to get this JPG to you (slightly too large to post in the gallery).
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Hey guys — just contributing a tip… You can embed images inside your posts or replies, providing the image is available somewhere on the Web.
Click on formatting tips and there are a couple of examples!
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Well, dang! So many “hidden” bells and whistles to this site (another link that’d been staring me in the face all this time and I didn’t notice!). Okay, so in the future, I’ll upload my jpg to a page of my site and then script it into the posting.
(BTW, Shinji: in reference to a previous post of mine, this also explains why typing “carat” “p” “carat” after each carriage return was causing it to disappear! Now I’m getting it.)
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