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Hello. Does anyone know if I can print japanese text with imager. This
is what i did but so far it prints numbers and symbols, no japanese
characters. THanks.

my $font = Imager::Font->new(
file => '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf',
index => 0,
color => $blue,
size => 10.5,
aa => 1);


$img->string(
font=>$font,
text=>$line2,
x=>$x2,
y=>75);

On Nov 25, 10:31 am, joe <jcha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello. Does anyone know if I can print japanese text with imager. This
> is what i did but so far it prints numbers and symbols, no japanese
> characters. THanks.
>
> my $font = Imager::Font->new(
> file => '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf',
> index => 0,
> color => $blue,
> size => 10.5,
> aa => 1);
>
> $img->string(
> font=>$font,
> text=>$line2,
> x=>$x2,
> y=>75);

FreeSans has Japanese?

I doubt there is a ttf with many languages. It works great with
english not sure what to do here I have found a couple of posts but no
details on how to implement it. Does imager have a built in font with
all the languages? thanks


On Nov 25, 12:09*pm, smallpond <smallp...@juno.com> wrote:
> On Nov 25, 10:31 am, joe <jcha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello. Does anyone know if I can print japanese text with imager. This
> > is what i did *but so far it prints *numbers and symbols, no japanese
> > characters. THanks.
>
> > my $font = Imager::Font->new(
> > * *file *=> '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf',
> > * *index => 0,
> > * *color => $blue,
> > * *size *=> 10.5,
> > * *aa * *=> 1);
>
> > $img->string(
> > * *font=>$font,
> > * *text=>$line2,
> > * *x=>$x2,
> > * *y=>75);
>
> FreeSans has Japanese?

joe wrote:
> On Nov 25, 12:09 pm, smallpond <smallp...@juno.com> wrote:
>> On Nov 25, 10:31 am, joe <jcha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello. Does anyone know if I can print japanese text with imager. This
>>> is what i did but so far it prints numbers and symbols, no japanese
>>> characters. THanks.
>>> my $font = Imager::Font->new(
>>> file => '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf',
>>> index => 0,
>>> color => $blue,
>>> size => 10.5,
>>> aa => 1);
>>> $img->string(
>>> font=>$font,
>>> text=>$line2,
>>> x=>$x2,
>>> y=>75);
>> FreeSans has Japanese?
>
> I doubt there is a ttf with many languages.

"supporting most major code pages and character sets in modern use ...
Ascender Uni is a 39MB TrueType (TTF) font with approximately 53,000
glyphs" - http://www.ascenderfonts.com/font/ascender-uni.aspx

Arial Unicode MS also has over 50,000 glyphs.
Bitstream Cyberbit has over 10,000 glyphs
....

Not that I'm recommending the idea of pan-unicode fonts. I believe there
are significant issues for the CJK character sets (which I think may
need to have different language-specific glyphs for many Unicode
codepoints). This might or might not be what joe's question is about.

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