![]() ![]() ![]() Morisawa’s Japanese fonts were embedded in the first PostScript Japanese printer.Īfter a variety of PostScript Japanese printers and imagesetters were released by printer OEMs, Japanese digital type foundries started to release various Japanese fonts in the 1990s. Prior to the release of the first PostScript Japanese printer, in 1987, Adobe and Morisawa made an agreement about licensing of fonts and font making technologies. The Japanese fonts included in the printer were in the OCF (Original Composite Font) format, which was Adobe’s own proprietary font file format based on the Type 1 font format - adopted as a de facto standard in the field of digital typography in the West - and its composite font configuration, to support a very large glyph set containing the thousands of ideographic characters (and glyphs) needed for Japanese. In 1989, the first PostScript Japanese printer with software to interpret and execute the PostScript page description language developed by Adobe was released. The Japanese version of this article is posted on the Creative Station blog. ![]()
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