Mac OS 8.5–9 Compatibility and Output Devices
Compatibility of Enfour gaiji, TypeBank, and kana fonts with Mac OS 8.5, 8.6 and 9, ATM requirements, and supported PostScript output devices.
Technical & Support Archive
Enfour Font News and Events Archive
News and events from Enfour's font business, 1999–2010: product launches, MACWORLD Expo/Tokyo 2000, and product updates.
At a glance
This archive collects news from Enfour’s font and tool business: product announcements, updates, and events such as MACWORLD Expo/Tokyo 2000 at Makuhari Messe, where Enfour demonstrated Kanji Edit Kit and Gaiji DX i Edition. Historical prices and contact details from the original notices are omitted.
Key facts
| Period | c. 1999–2010 |
|---|---|
| Highlights | MACWORLD Expo/Tokyo 2000; Gaiji DX i Edition; Comic-Font; Keitai-Font; Tokyo-Font |
Part of
The technical and support archive for Enfour font products: compatibility tables, PDF/CID notes, download services, and updaters.
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
News
News
01.09.03 [New product]
01.08.08 [Notice] The Gaiji Download Service has been enhanced with a new Weekly Gaiji Download corner — five new characters (Mincho and Gothic) every week.
01.08.06 [Information] Business partnership with CELSYS, Inc. to develop a next-generation comic production environment
01.08.06 [Notice]
01.07.25 [Notice]
01.07.12 [Information] Our allocation of the limited-edition Keitai-Font has sold out.
01.07.05 [Information] Updated Generated by Kanji Edit Kit, our page introducing fonts made with Kanji Edit Kit, adding the 25 FONT1000 typefaces released July 6.
01.06.14 [New product] Comic-Font (mid-July release): a digital font pack for manga speech balloons (Windows/Macintosh hybrid). Comic-Font news release
01.06.08 [Notice] IBM extended characters (images only, for checking) have been added to our popular Gaiji Download Service.
01.04.27 [Notice]
01.04.17 [Information] Launched Generated by Kanji Edit Kit, a link page for fonts made with Kanji Edit Kit.
01.03.16 [Support] Added ATOK14 dictionary files for the Gaiji DX Series. Download here.
01.03.12 [New product] Kanji Edit Kit 2.5, the Japanese TrueType font creation tool, goes on sale April 20.
01.03.12 [Notice] Opened Enfour FONT-TOOLS-WEB, introducing and selling font creation tools.
01.02.22 [Notice] Support will be closed 2/22–24 while we exhibit at Macworld Conference & Expo/Tokyo 2001 (booth 422-21). We will reply to enquiries from the 26th.
01.01.19 [New service] User registration has opened for the CID Glyph Switching Download Service.
00.12.26 [New service] Launched the CID Glyph Switching Download Service. User registration from January 22, 2001.
00.12.25 [New product] Keitai-Font (mid-February release): a TrueType font that displays i-mode emoji, in a Windows/Macintosh hybrid package. Keitai-Font news release
00.09.18 [Notice]
00.08.11 [New service] GAIJI TOOLS Online has started. Click USER ONLY on the left (pages for registered users).
00.08.01 [Special offer]
00.07.24 [Release date change] For various reasons, the release of GAIJI TOOLS has moved to August 10. We sincerely apologise to customers, retailers, and partners looking forward to it.
00.07.06 [Service expansion] Expanded the Gaiji Download Service (for Enfour Gaiji DX i Edition users) and opened it to the public; non-registered visitors can now browse the gaiji.
00.07.06 [New product] GAIJI TOOLS (release August 5): a gaiji solution package bringing together tools for handling gaiji easily. – For every DTP user. – Extends any PostScript (ATM or printer) font — and Enfour Gaiji DX, of course. – Gaiji font creation for every scenario (1-byte and 2-byte gaiji fonts). – Condensed know-how for creating, entering, and printing gaiji (outline creation support, input support, and output support tools). GAIJI TOOLS news release
00.07.06 [Exhibition]
00.06.01 [New service] Launched a gaiji download service for Enfour Gaiji DX i Edition users. See here.
00.04.14 [Information]
00.04.14 [Support]
00.03.21 [Information]
00.03.10 [Information] Published part 3, “Digital Fonts”, of the Concept Notes.
00.02.21 [Information] Published part 2, “Design Elements and Design Unity in Typefaces”, of the Concept Notes.
00.02.10 [Exhibition]
00.02.01 [Product]
99.12.24 [Product]
99.12.22 [Support] Support files for users of Morisawa NewCID fonts with Enfour Gaiji DX ATM Edition 2-Typeface and 3-Typeface Packs (including those bundled with the PS Edition) are now here.
99.12.01 [Campaign] Launching the Turn Your Handwriting into a Font campaign: every month, ten winners drawn by lot receive an original kana font creation service.
99.12.01 [Support] Compiled our products’ Mac OS 9 support.
99.10.22 [Information] Announcing Enfour Gaiji DX (Deluxe) i Edition: the definitive gaiji package (TrueType), combining 1,900 ready-made gaiji, a tool to create more when those are not enough, and a gaiji input tool in one package. News release
99.10.06 [Information]
99.09.03 [Information] Marukan Compatible Vertical Writing Support is now available to non-Enfour users too. Please read this page carefully before use.
99.08.06 [Information]
99.08.06 [Information] Added a sample PDF with embedded Japanese TrueType to the PDF/CID Laboratory.
99.08.04 [Information] Added “How to embed TrueType on the Macintosh” to the PDF/CID Laboratory.
99.07.12 [Information] Added “PDF font embedding and the future of font workflows” to the PDF/CID Laboratory.
99.06.17 [New product]
99.06.10 [Support] Added to Support a tool that creates kerning data for your own recomposite fonts combining the Shintaro Ajioka Kana Series with typefaces you own.
99.06.07 [Support] Support for Kanji Edit Kit and Gaiji Edit Kit: ART2EPS1 v1.0, which converts Adobe Illustrator files to EPS 1.1, is now on the Support page.
99.05.25 [Support] Some fonts in the Shintaro Ajioka Kana Series could not be embedded in PDF. Users, please check and update with the ATM font updater.
99.05.25 [Information] Created the History of Enfour font development page.
Enfour Font and Tool Products — Updates
Updates
2010-03-08 Typos Allmighty (JAN: 4518413110903) will be discontinued as of March 31, 2010. Product support, including restoration of installer disks, will continue.
2010-03-08 The Shintaro Ajioka Kana font series (package shipments suspended since January 18, 2005) has been discontinued.
2008-11-21 The “TTFRollUp Evaluation Version” has been updated. See the Kanji Edit Kit 2.5 support page for details.
2008-10-22 We are providing the support software “TTFRollUp Evaluation Version” to Kanji Edit Kit 2.5 users. For details, open “Online Support.html” in the “Online Support” folder on the Kanji Edit Kit 2.5 CD-ROM and go to the support page.
2006-03-23 The latest installer for the Shintaro Ajioka Kana font series, “TB Font Installer 1.6”, is now available on the Support page. With this version, the “installer disk restoration procedure” previously required after initializing a Macintosh hard disk or changing printers is no longer needed.
2005-01-18 Package shipments of the Shintaro Ajioka Kana font series have been suspended because stock has run out. Customers who wish to purchase the series, please contact us.
2003-05-07
2003-02-18
MACWORLD Expo/Tokyo 2000
Enfour Media Laboratory at MACWORLD Expo/Tokyo 2000
February 16–19, 2000 / Makuhari Messe (Booth 423, in Developer Central)
Creating Japanese fonts with Kanji Edit Kit 2.0
A practical demonstration of creating Japanese fonts with Kanji Edit Kit 2.0, a tool for making Japanese TrueType fonts for Macintosh and Windows. It is widely used by professionals and amateurs alike to create original Japanese fonts. If you are interested in creating Japanese fonts, please drop by.
The Font 1000 Project, which creates Japanese fonts with Kanji Edit Kit, will also present new typefaces at the booth next to Enfour Media Laboratory.
Introducing Enfour Gaiji DX i Edition
We will introduce Enfour Gaiji DX i Edition, currently our most popular and easiest-to-use gaiji product. i Edition includes about 1,800 gaiji, saving you the work of creating them. It also includes IBM extended characters, so even when data received from Windows uses characters such as the “ladder” form of 高, the “standing” form of 崎 or the 土吉 form of 吉, they display on a Macintosh. Input is easy with the Gaiji Search Palette, and if a character you need is missing, you can create your own gaiji.
MACWORLD Expo special draw — “We Turn Your Handwriting into a Font” campaign
Buy an Enfour Media Laboratory product at a sales booth during Expo 2000 and visit the Enfour Media Laboratory booth: 10 people chosen by an on-the-spot draw will win the “We Turn Your Handwriting into a Font” service.
Sales booth carrying our products (confirmed as of February 10): Too Corporation, Font Too Division (Booth 530)
Also on show
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Enfour Gaiji DX
Enfour Gaiji DX (1998) added about 1,500 gaiji to Mac OS and Morisawa DTP fonts, in i, TrueType, ATM, and PS editions plus option packs.
Comic-Font & CELSYS
Comic-Font (2001) put manga speech-balloon lettering into TrueType for Mac and Windows, and Enfour partnered with CELSYS on comic fonts.
Tokyo-Font & Keitai-Font
Enfour’s TrueType screen fonts: Tokyo-Font for Internet for Mac email and web, and Keitai-Font, which showed i-mode emoji on computers.
More from Technical and Support Archive
PDF/CID Laboratory: Embedding Japanese Fonts in PDF
Enfour's 1999 PDF/CID notes on embedding Japanese CID fonts in PDF with Acrobat 4.0, and its 117 embeddable typefaces.
Gaiji Download Service Archive
Archive of Enfour's Gaiji Download Service for Gaiji DX and GAIJI TOOLS users: radical index, character lists, and Weekly Gaiji Download issues.
CID Variant Switching Download Service Archive
Archive of Enfour's CID Variant Switching Download Service for TypeBank and GAIJI TOOLS users, merged into one radical index table.
Gaiji DX with ATOK and Input-Method Dictionaries
How Enfour Gaiji DX worked with ATOK12–14, Kotoeri, and other input methods, including the gaiji dictionary files and IM Display font.
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.
Software Downloads and Licences
Archive of Enfour FONT TOOLS WEB free software downloads and the licence terms that applied to them.