A general purpose font module for multilingual application programs

摘要

Multilingual information processing technology has enabled us to handle the text of may languages and scripts. Technical difficulties, however, still remaian in the filed of displaying and printing text. Windowing systems and printers often lack support for scripts that are not widely used and there has been no simple and flexible remedy for this problem. In this paper, we describe the general font module VFIib for multilingual text. VFIb knows how fonts are Represented in different font formats and obtains glyphs as bitmap images from various font files. As VFIlib Provides a unified interface for font access, application can employ many font types without Handling their details.