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Gnome Live CD customized for Chinese Available

Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

Base on Ubuntu Live CD to customize for Chinese is ready for download. This CD is especial suitable for Tradition Chinese user, and also Simpified Chinese user. In this CD great improved on Chinese display in sharp and solid fonts with bitmap fonts embeded. There are not much user other than Chinese will find that Linux unable to display Chinese characters in bold and italic style, and that this cd correct this. Mainly the enhancement are:

  • Replace better Chinese fonts for display
  • Add Chinese input software -SCIM with additional Chinese table not bundled with official release
  • Configure Firefox and Ephiphy to print Chinese correctly
  • Enhance system to preview MP3 and OGG on mouse over files
  • Fix some l10n problem on Chinese

Download url: ftp://ftp.deaddog.org/pub/Linux/cd-images/custom-GNOME-livecd/

Synthetic emboldening is alre

Synthetic emboldening is already there in fontconfig and Xft-- that's two out of the three links in the font rendering chain. All that remains is support in FreeType. (The beginnings of the function to do it is there, but it doesn't yet work properly)

Freetype suffered a major slowdown in development when they lost their servers, but they're getting their act back together, so hopefully we'll have this pretty soon.