Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Hangul (Korean) Font

On 09/06/2011 09:00 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:57, NoOp<glgxg@sbcglobal.net>  wrote:
> > On 09/02/2011 01:35 PM, Tom Browder wrote:
> > > My Korean customer thinks the Korean Hangul font in LibreOffice is
> > > very attractive and I would like to use the same font in a DocBook
> > > document I create for him.   By looking at the document parameters for
> > > one of the glyphs I see the name of the font but it's in Hangul.  How
> > > can I find (and refer to) the font file when I can't use unicode on
> > > the file system (or at least I don't know how to do it)?  Is there an
> > > ASCII mapping for such font names?
> > ...
> > This might work:
> >
> > Open a new document. Select the font. Type a few characters (doesn't
> > matter if they are roman or hangul). Export as PDF/A-1a. Open in Adobe
> > Reader: File|Preferences|Fonts.
> Thanks, NoOp, I used your idea but I already had the document so I
> saved it in the format you suggested and then opened it in evince
> (Ubuntu's default pdf reader).
>
> Then under File|Properties|Fonts I found the Hangul font name:
>
>    UnDotum
>
> On my system I then did:
>
>    locate UnDotum
>
> and found this:
>
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/unfonts/UnDotum.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/unfonts/UnDotumBold.ttf
>
> Just what I was looking for!
>
> Thanks all--now I have the source of some great (and free) Hangul fonts.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -Tom
Well, I looked [Google-ed] and one site showed that UnDotum has 11,172 
"Hangul Syllables".  Also it appears that is has at least RPM installs 
available, outside of installing the .TTF files directly.



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