Technical & Support Archive

Marukan Compatible Vertical Writing Support

Enfour's free Marukan Compatible Vertical Writing Support file fixed garbled vertical text with Gaiji DX on Mac OS 8.5 and 8.6.

At a glance

Marukan Compatible Vertical Writing Support was a free support file from Enfour for users of Enfour Gaiji DX and other Enfour Media Laboratory fonts. On Mac OS 8.5 and 8.6, characters in vertical writing could appear garbled on screen; the file supplied the missing vertical-writing characters, using bitmaps provided by courtesy of TypeBank Co., Ltd.

Key facts

For	Enfour Gaiji DX users
Systems	Mac OS 8.5–8.6
Price	Free support file (historical)

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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

Marukan Compatible Vertical Writing Support

About “Marukan Compatible Vertical Writing Support”

We have distributed a support file called “Marukan Compatible Vertical Writing Support” for users of Enfour Gaiji DX.

On Mac OS 8.5 to 8.6, vertical-writing characters in some bitmap fonts are garbled when text is set vertically with bitmap fonts. The same happens when Enfour Gaiji DX is displayed with bitmap fonts, so we created “Marukan Compatible Vertical Writing Support” to solve this.

The file also works for other bitmap fonts with the same problem. As a result, many people running Mac OS 8.5–8.6 who do not use Enfour Gaiji DX asked whether they could use it too.

Free for: – Registered users of the Enfour Gaiji DX Series – Registered users of the ENFOUR TYPE COLLECTION – Registered users of the Shintaro Ajioka Kana Series – Registered users of Typos Allmighty

Note: Our fonts other than Enfour Gaiji DX do not garble vertical text, even when displayed with bitmaps only.

Before use, please read the included “Read Me First” file carefully. Please contact us about linking to the file or including it on a CD-ROM.

Marukan Compatible Vertical Writing Support — Read Me

Before use

“Marukan Compatible Vertical Writing Support” was developed as a support file for Enfour Gaiji DX. It is free for users of Enfour Gaiji DX and of Enfour Media Laboratory font products (ENFOUR TYPE COLLECTION, Shintaro Ajioka Kana Series, Typos Allmighty). Other users may use it after paying a usage fee.

What it does

On Mac OS 8.5 and later, some bitmap fonts may not display vertical-writing characters correctly in vertical text, depending on the application. This also happens when Enfour Gaiji DX is used as a bitmap font: because Gaiji DX supplies only the gaiji portion on top of an existing base font, the problem comes from the base font’s bitmaps.

By adding vertical-writing characters to “Marukan Compatibility” (丸漢コンパチビリティ) on Mac OS 8.5 and later, this file fixes the vertical display problem for all bitmap fonts that rely on Marukan Compatibility.

Vertical-writing characters added: punctuation, brackets, small kana, long-vowel marks, and similar characters (character chart shown on the original page).

Note: ENFOUR TYPE COLLECTION, Shintaro Ajioka Kana Series, and Typos Allmighty do not have this vertical-display problem when shown as bitmap fonts.

Installation

Copy the Marukan file “丸漢コンパチ縦書サポート” in this folder into the Fonts folder inside the System Folder, then restart the Macintosh.

Paying the usage fee

Terms

By using this software you agree to the following:

Copyright in this software belongs to Enfour Media Laboratory.
No liability is accepted for any damage arising from use of this software.
No responsibility is accepted for upgrades or maintenance.
No user support is provided.
Unauthorised redistribution or reproduction is prohibited.
Please contact us in advance before including this software in a book or magazine.
Recording this software on CD-ROM or other media for distribution or sale without our permission is prohibited.