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.
Enfour Gaiji DX
Enfour Gaiji DX Option Packs: Medical, Dental, and IBM
Gaiji DX option packs added 188 medical, 321 dental, and 388 IBM extended characters to the Mac, with specialist input dictionaries.
At a glance
The Enfour Gaiji DX option packs extend a Gaiji DX 2-typeface pack for specialist work. Option Pack Medical adds 188 characters used in disease names and insurance records, Option Pack Dental adds 321 dental notation and insurance symbols, and Option Pack IBM adds 388 IBM extended characters so Windows text displays correctly on a Macintosh. The Medical and Dental packs include specialist dictionaries.
Key facts
| Medical | 188 characters + medical dictionary |
|---|---|
| Dental | 321 characters + dictionary |
| IBM | 388 IBM extended characters |
| Requires | A Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Pack |
| 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.
Editorial note: the following romanisations are best readings from the Japanese originals and are awaiting confirmation: 沼原利彦 rendered as Toshihiko Numahara; 乕田 克巨 rendered as Katsumi Torada (best guess).
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
Enfour Gaiji DX — Option Packs (Medical, Dental, IBM)
Option Pack Medical
- An option package for the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Packs
- 188 characters: kanji for medical use and symbols for insurance records
- Easy input, with dictionaries for Kotoeri and other input methods
Product features
Enfour Gaiji DX Option Pack Medical collects kanji for medical use and symbols for writing insurance records. It is even more effective with the medical terminology dictionary included with the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Pack. Use it together with the TrueType, ATM, or PS Edition of the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Pack. As with Enfour Gaiji DX, register the included Enfour Gaiji DX dictionaries and you can type the characters through kanji conversion like any ordinary Japanese font.
Enfour Gaiji DX Option Pack Medical
| Contents | Floppy disk / installation manual (includes data for the TrueType, ATM, and PS Editions of the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Pack) |
| Requirements | KanjiTalk 7.1 or later (including Mac OS 8); 8 MB or more memory; 500 KB free disk space per typeface; 2HD floppy drive; ATM 3.9.1 or later (with the ATM Edition); one of the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Packs |
| Dictionaries | Kotoeri, Kotoeri 2.0 / ATOK8, 11 / EG Bridge 7, 8, 9 / VJE-Delta; dictionary-registration text for other input methods (Kotoeri format) |
| Code range | Shift_JIS F940–F9FC (188 characters) |
| Typeface names | Enfour Gaiji Mincho L (with Ryumin Light-KL or L Ryumin L-KL); Enfour Gaiji Gothic M (with Chu Gothic BBB or M Chu Gothic BBB) |
In cooperation with: Toshihiko Numahara, Department of Dermatology, Kagawa Medical University
Notes
- This product is used with the TrueType, ATM, or PS Edition of the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Pack. It cannot be used on its own.
- Option Pack Medical cannot be used together with Option Pack Dental.
- Option packs cannot be used in Adobe Illustrator 7.0J.
- Option packs are not sold for the Enfour Gaiji DX 3-typeface packs.
Option Pack Dental
- An option package for the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Packs
- 321 characters: dental notation symbols and symbols for insurance records
- Easy input, with dictionaries for Kotoeri and other input methods
Product features
Enfour Gaiji DX Option Pack Dental collects dental notation symbols and symbols for writing insurance records. It is even more effective with the dental terminology dictionary included with the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Pack. Use it together with the TrueType, ATM, or PS Edition of the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Pack. As with Enfour Gaiji DX, register the included Enfour Gaiji DX dictionaries and you can type the characters through kanji conversion like any ordinary Japanese font.
Enfour Gaiji DX Option Pack Dental
| Contents | Floppy disk / installation manual (includes data for the TrueType, ATM, and PS Editions of the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Pack) |
| Requirements | KanjiTalk 7.1 or later (including Mac OS 8); 8 MB or more memory; 500 KB free disk space per typeface; 2HD floppy drive; ATM 3.9.1 or later (with the ATM Edition); one of the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Packs |
| Dictionaries | Kotoeri, Kotoeri 2.0 / ATOK8, 11 / EG Bridge 7, 8, 9 / VJE-Delta; dictionary-registration text for other input methods (Kotoeri format) |
| Code range | Shift_JIS F940–FAC9 (321 characters) |
| Typeface names | Enfour Gaiji Mincho L (with Ryumin Light-KL or L Ryumin L-KL); Enfour Gaiji Gothic M (with Chu Gothic BBB or M Chu Gothic BBB) |
In cooperation with: Katsumi Torada, Doctor of Dental Science
Notes
- This product is used with the TrueType, ATM, or PS Edition of the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Pack. It cannot be used on its own.
- Option Pack Dental cannot be used together with Option Pack Medical or Option Pack IBM.
- When Option Pack Dental is used, the number of characters that can be registered with Gaiji Edit Kit is limited.
- Option packs cannot be used in Adobe Illustrator 7.0J.
- Option packs are not sold for the Enfour Gaiji DX 3-typeface packs.
Option Pack IBM
This product is for Macintosh.
- An option package for the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Packs
- Use 388 IBM extended characters on the Macintosh, compatible with Windows data
- Easy input, with dictionaries for Kotoeri and other input methods
Product features
Enfour Gaiji DX Option Pack IBM is an option package that makes the IBM extended characters — standard in Windows TrueType fonts — available on the Macintosh. Use it together with the TrueType, ATM, or PS Edition of the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Pack. As with Enfour Gaiji DX, register the included Enfour Gaiji DX dictionaries and you can type the characters through kanji conversion like any ordinary Japanese font.
Enfour Gaiji DX Option Pack IBM
| Contents | Floppy disk / installation manual (includes data for the TrueType, ATM, and PS Editions of the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Pack) |
| Requirements | KanjiTalk 7.1 or later (including Mac OS 8); 8 MB or more memory; 500 KB free disk space per typeface; 2HD floppy drive; ATM 3.9.1 or later (with the ATM Edition); one of the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Packs |
| Dictionaries | Kotoeri, Kotoeri 2.0 / ATOK8, 11 / EG Bridge 7, 8, 9 / VJE-Delta; dictionary-registration text for other input methods (Kotoeri format) |
| Code range | Shift_JIS FA40–FC4B (388 characters) |
| Typeface names | Enfour Gaiji Mincho L (with Ryumin Light-KL or L Ryumin L-KL); Enfour Gaiji Gothic M (with Chu Gothic BBB or M Chu Gothic BBB) |
Notes
- This product is used with the TrueType, ATM, or PS Edition of the Enfour Gaiji DX 2-Typeface Pack. It cannot be used on its own.
- When Option Pack IBM is used, Option Pack Dental and original gaiji created with Gaiji Edit Kit cannot be used.
- This is a gaiji font package for Macintosh and cannot be used on Windows.
- Only the IBM extended character area (FA40–FC4B) is compatible with Windows TrueType; other gaiji areas are not.
- In Adobe Illustrator 5.5J, the option pack’s TrueType Edition cannot be converted to outlines.
- Option packs cannot be used in Adobe Illustrator 7.0J.
- Option packs are not sold for the Enfour Gaiji DX 3-typeface packs.
Code areas used by Enfour Gaiji DX and the option packs
Because codes are allocated this way, products whose areas overlap cannot be used together.
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Enfour Gaiji DX Option Pack Character Sets
Enfour Gaiji DX Option Pack Character Sets
The character set of each option pack. The samples are set in Enfour Gaiji Gothic M.
Option Pack for Medical Use (Shift_JIS code range $F940–$F9FC)
Option Pack for Dental Use (Shift_JIS code range $F940–$FAC9)
Option Pack for IBM (Shift_JIS code range $FA40–$FC4B)
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