========================================================== Wen Quan Yi Bitmap Song CJK Fonts Release Notes ---------------------------------------------------------- Dedication: ---------------------------------------------------------- Summary: Authors : WenQuanYi Contributors Webpage : http://wenq.org/en/ Font Name: WenQuanYi Bitmap Song Version : 1.0 (Hero) RC1 (0.9.9.8) Release : 8 Copyright: © 2004-2010, The WenQuanYi Project Board of Trustees and Qianqian Fang License : GPL v2 or later version (with font embedding exception **) ---------------------------------------------------------- May the Font be with you, forever! ---------------------------------------------------------- Legal Disclaimer: Copyright (c) 2004-2010, The WenQuanYi Project Board of Trustees and Qianqian Fang This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA ---------------------------------------------------------- Table of Content I. Introduction II. Installation III. About "The WenQuanYi Project" IV. Links to Open-source CJK font resources ---------------------------------------------------------- I. Introduction WenQuanYi bitmap fonts include all 20,932 Unicode 5.2 CJK Unified Ideographs (U4E00 - U9FA5) and 6,582 CJK Extension A characters (U3400 - U4DB5) at 5 different pixel sizes (9pt-12X12, 10pt-13X13, 10.5pt-14x14, 11pt-15X15 and 12pt-16x16 pixel). Use of this bitmap font for on-screen display of Chinese (traditional and simplified) in web pages and elsewhere eliminates the annoying "blurring" problems caused by insufficient "hinting" of anti-aliased vector CJK fonts. In addition, Latin characters, Japanese Kanas and Korean Hangul glyphs (U+AC00~U+D7A3) are also included. This font was built upon the previous works by firefly (firefly[at]firefly(dot)idv(dot)tw)[2]. The 12pt bitmap glyphs between U3400-U9FA5 were derived from Chinese national standard GB19966-2005 [3]. We release this font to the public as an open-source software in terms of GNU General Public License version 2. You are free to copy, distribute, and/or modify this font as long as you pass the freedoms to the users of the derived work. We hope you find this font useful. Please direct your feedback and bug-reports to our forum at http://wenq.org/forum/ In addition to bitmap font development, we also develop vector fonts and other CJK-related resources at WenQuanYi. Please join us by visiting our website at http://wenq.org/en/ We also welcome donations if you found this font to be useful to you. ---------------------------------------------------------- II. Installation Guide Please refer to INSTALL for details. ---------------------------------------------------------- III. About The WenQuanYi Project The Wen Quan Yi Project was founded by Qianqian Fang[5] in Oct. 2004. The goal of this project is to develop CJK related open-source software and resources. The initial effots of the project focused on creating high quality bitmap character glyphs and outline fonts for all 70,000+ CJK characters currently encoded by the Unicode Consortium [4]. The contributors of the Wen Quan Yi Project use wiki[1] as the primary development tool for glyph creation, documentation and coordinations. The Wen Quan Yi wiki (Habitat wiki: http://wenq.org/habitat/ ) was developed by Qianqian Fang based on UseModWiki v1.0. For commercial use, please contact the project maintainer (Qianqian Fang) or consult copyright law firms to make sure your plan is compliant with the font licenses. Commercial licenses are also available upon request. ---------------------------------------------------------- IV. Links to Open-source CJK font resources [1] The WenQuanYi Project Homepage http://wenq.org/ (Chinese version) http://wenq.org/en/ (English version) http://wenq.org/forum/ (User forum) [2] Firefly bitmap font http://www.study-area.org/apt/firefly-font/ [3] Chinese National Standard GB19966-2005 (mandatory) http://www.standardcn.com/standard_plan/list_standard_content.asp? stand_id=GB@19966-2005 [4] The Unicode Consortium http://www.unicode.org/ [5] Qianqian Fang homepage http://nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~fangq/ ** GPL v2.0 license with font embedding exception: As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. ==========================================================