PDFO8TT1 - VISCII Vietnamese Truetype Font PD Package #8            Release 1.0

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~           Mar 15, 1994

This font package contains 9 new VISCII TrueType typefaces (17 fonts):



 The fonts are contribute by Mr. Tra^`n Sy~ Hu`ng (Vn-Font, Switzerland)



  Ba(`ng La(ng                  banlan1t.ttf    thu+o+`ng

  Ba(`ng La(ng Hoa              banlan1h.ttf    hoa

  Ba^'t Tu+?                    buttu_1t.ttf    thu+o+`ng only

  Ca^?m Hu+o+ng                 camhuo1t.ttf    thu+o+`ng

  Ca^?m Hu+o+ng Hoa             camhuo1h.ttf    hoa

  Ha?i DDu+o+`ng                haiduo1t.ttf    thu+o+`ng

  Ha?i DDu+o+`ng Hoa            haiduo1h.ttf    hoa

  Ho^`ng Mai                    honmai1t.ttf    thu+o+`ng

  Ho^`ng Mai Hoa                honmai1h.ttf    hoa

  Le^. Chi                      lechi_1t.ttf    thu+o+`ng

  Le^. Chi Hoa                  lechi_1h.ttf    hoa

  Phong Lan                     pholan1t.ttf    thu+o+`ng

  Phong Lan Hoa                 pholan1h.ttf    hoa

  Phu` Dung                     phudun1t.ttf    thu+o+`ng

  Phu` Dung Hoa                 phudun1h.ttf    hoa

  Thu+o+.c Du+o+.c              thuduo1t.ttf    thu+o+`ng

  Thu+o+.c Du+o+.c Hoa          thuduoth.ttf    hoa



The number "1" in the filename and the VI in the fontname specify VISCII 1.1

The fonts use VISCII 1.1 encoding by Viet-Std, and can be used with any 

application that uses VISCII fonts.



Installation

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0) Erase the old version of these fonts if you have them installed previously.

   First, click on the "Control" icon, then "ABC" , then when a panel listing

   the available fonts appears, select the old font, then select delete. If 

   you don't delete the old font , there is a chance that because of the fonts

   having the same name, the old font will always get selected.

  

2) Make a directory , for ex. VNFONTS:

     C:

     MKDIR C:\VNFONTS

   then change to that directory:

     CD C:\VNFONTS

3) Copy the file from the floppy:

     COPY B:pdfo8tt1.EXE C:

     or copy b:pdfo8tt1.zip if you have the zip file.

   and run it to extract the fonts:

     C:pdfo8tt1 <Enter>

     or pkunzip pdfo8tt1.zip



4) Run Windows. Then double click on the Control icon. It will

   pop up a panel.  Look for the icon "ABC" (for fonts), then

   double click on this icon.  This in turn will pop up another

   window, with panes showing what fonts are currently installed.

   Click on the "Add" button, then select the directory containing 

   the Vietnamese fonts. The fonts' names will be displayed on a 

   panel. Click on a font name and "OK" to install it.  Repeat this 

   procedure for the other font names. Then close the Control window.



5) To use Vietnamese fonts in a Windows application, select the font 

   and use it.



6) To type in Vietnamese for any Windows application, you need the programs

   WinVNKey or VietVU by TriChlor.  Or you can generate a VISCII file 

   under DOS using VietDos/vnelvis, VPS, butviet, etc., and read in that file

   from the Windows application. Commercial VN software such as T-Script by 

   TIEN can also read and write in VISCII.  Or if you have no access to 8-bit 

   tools, you can write in Viet-Net/SCV/VIQR style, and use the program 

   viet7to8 to convert it to VISCII.

   For "Write", make sure you select "No conversion".

   For Microsoft Word, choose the "Text only" filter.

   Then select the whole text, and change to Vietnamese fonts.

   Also see the note about Hoa font below.



7) To print is easy. Just click on print. Any printer supported by Windows 

   will print Vietnamese.



8) To print on a Unix network PostScript printer: in Windows, select a 

   PostScript printer, then select "Print to File".  Return to the program, 

   start printing.  A window will pop up and ask you for a file name. 

   Enter a file name.  Transfer this file to Unix (using ftp or whatever), 

   then just print it (lpr filename).



The HOA (uppercase) fonts

=========================

Each typeface comes with 2 fonts, a normal font and a HOA font,

with the HOA font name ended in H. For example:

     UHoai   : normal font, both lowercase and uppercase chars.

     UHoaiH  : HOA font, all uppercase characters.



In order to produce some of the uppercase chars, particularly the ones 

coded in C0 ( A(? A(~ A^~ Y? Y~ Y. ), you may need to switch to the 

corresponding HOA font for each of the typeface, for some applications.  

Basically, in the HOA font, all the chars are capital (uppercase), so if 

you type "a?" you will get "A?", or select "a?" in the text, and switch 

to HOA font to get "A?".  The reason is Vietnamese has 134 chars, and 

usable slots are less than 128 :-( . VISCII 1.1 has been designed so that 

all lowercase chars and most uppercase chars are usable by most existing 

software. Some software uses certain Vietnamese chars for their internal 

purpose, most of the time in the uppercase area.  Therefore, when one 

wants to produce certain uppercase using these software, just switch to 

HOA font.  Each font comes with a normal font, and a HOA font to alleviate

this problem. Normally, the normal font should take care of most of your 

needs.



Have fun writing !



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For more information, you can contact the individual font authors, or the 

vn-fonts electronic mailing list:



	vn-fonts@phsys.com

	or contact Hu`ng Ho^` at hho@usc.edu



VISCII is the 8-bit Vietnamese coding scheme by Viet-Std. For

more information on the VISCII standard, contact:

 

 via email : viet-std@haydn.stanford.edu

 via postal mail:       Viet-Std

			1212 Somerset Dr. San Jose, CA 95132, USA



Contributions of new fonts or comments regarding the fonts should be 

directed to the vn-fonts@cccogp.com mailing list.



COPYRIGHTS

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The fonts are copyrighted by the appropriate artists of the VN-Fonts

Team.  All rights reserved.



The fonts are released to general public domain, but all rights are reserved.

You may use, copy, distribute these fonts in any form, as long as you do not 

charge a fee for doing so, and included this copyright notice. 

No modification allowed, unless permission has been explicitly given

by the copyright owners.



The fonts are provided as is, without any express or implied warranty.

