Enfour Gaiji DX TrueType Edition
The Gaiji DX TrueType Edition 2-Typeface Pack added about 1,500 gaiji to Ryumin Light-KL and Chu Gothic BBB and supported the Medical and Dental packs.
Enfour Gaiji DX
Enfour Gaiji DX i Edition
Gaiji DX i Edition gave home and office Mac users about 1,900 gaiji, IBM extended characters, a search palette, and their own gaiji creation tool.
At a glance
Enfour Gaiji DX i Edition was the easiest and most popular edition of the Gaiji DX Series. Built on the Ryumin Light-KL and Chu Gothic BBB TrueType fonts supplied with Mac OS, it provides about 1,900 gaiji, including the 388 IBM extended characters, so Windows documents display correctly on a Mac. It added a Gaiji Search Palette for input, a tool for creating original gaiji, and access to the Gaiji Download Service.
Key facts
| Characters | About 1,900 (incl. 388 IBM extended characters) |
|---|---|
| Base fonts | Ryumin Light-KL, Chu Gothic BBB (TrueType, bundled with Mac OS) |
| Best for | Word processing, spreadsheets, databases, greeting-card software |
| Extras | Gaiji Search Palette; original gaiji creation; Gaiji Download Service |
| Status | Historical product |
Part of
Enfour Gaiji DX: the Macintosh gaiji font series that added about 1,500 extra Japanese characters to standard Mac OS and DTP fonts.
Historical product information from Enfour’s original Japanese font site, translated into English. Prices, addresses, and ordering details from the period are omitted.
Details
From the original product pages
i Edition Character List
Apple standard system gaiji: 2 characters added to JIS Level 2
Enfour Gaiji DX: 1,504 characters (Shift_JIS code range $F040–$F7FC)
Adds about 1,500 gaiji characters, centred on punctuation, symbols, and traditional kanji forms used in personal names.
Option for IBM: 388 characters (Shift_JIS code range $FA40–$FACF)
Contains the same characters as the “IBM-selected extension characters” included in Windows TrueType fonts.
Enfour Gaiji DX i Edition Announced
Enfour Gaiji DX Series — “Enfour Gaiji DX i Edition” announced
October 22, 1999
Enfour Media Laboratory today announced that from late November it will sell Enfour Gaiji DX (Deluxe) i Edition, a TrueType gaiji font for Macintosh that makes about 1,900 characters not in Shift_JIS available.
Features
- A simple installation adds 1,900 gaiji to both Enfour Gaiji Mincho L and Enfour Gaiji Gothic M.
- Installs from the CD-ROM alone — ideal for iMac, iBook, new G3, G4, and other models without a floppy drive.
- The IBM-selected gaiji set is mapped to its standard code points, so it can be used to display and print cross-platform databases that use IBM-selected characters.
- If you need still more characters, the bundled gaiji creation tool lets you create and add them.
- A Gaiji Search Palette helps you find and enter gaiji.
Frequently used name and place characters and symbols – Personal and place name gaiji: 660 frequently used characters (300 in the Enfour gaiji set, 360 in the IBM-selected set) – Symbols: circled, parenthesized, boxed, reversed (white-on-black), and period-suffixed numerals; parenthesized kanji numerals; circled, parenthesized, and boxed letters; letters with macrons; circled and parenthesized hiragana and katakana; parenthesized, circled, and boxed kanji; radicals; ligature-style combined characters; vertical-writing forms; scientific, music, and unit symbols; keyboard symbols; arrows; map symbols; weather symbols — about 1,200 characters
Two major extras – Gaiji creation tool: With Gaiji Designer you can create and add up to 376 gaiji of your own. You design outline data, so gaiji have clean curves. PICT images can be imported as templates, and outline data can be imported as EPS. – Gaiji input tool: The Gaiji Search Palette searches Gaiji DX i Edition’s gaiji by reading and radical; drag and drop to enter them in word processors or databases. – Includes a gaiji conversion dictionary for ATOK12 (with gaiji comments).
Contents
CD-ROM, manual, user registration postcard
Requirements
- Mac OS 7.6 or later (including Mac OS 8.6)
- 8 MB or more memory
- 10 MB or more free disk space
- CD-ROM drive
- The TrueType fonts that come with Mac OS (Ryumin Light-KL, Chu Gothic BBB)
Contact
Enfour Media Laboratory, Ltd. (http://www.enfour.co.jp/media/)
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