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Presentations and working papers in the area of rendering
Contents
Acrobat
The following presentation was prepared for the Non-Roman Technical Consultation 2001. It presents issues and solutions for creating quality pdfs.
 | Acrobat and Fonts: Making Electronic Paper Work Martin Hosken, 2001-08-22 Download "AcrobatFonts.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 84KB [10593 downloads] |
Publishing
Specifications
| Specs for a non-Roman Publishing/Typesetting System Lorna A. Priest, 2002-10-25 Download "Pub_Specs.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 46KB [8966 downloads] |
This checklist was written as a starting point to figure out what features SIL needed in the way of a publication application.
InDesign Reviews
| Review of InDesign CS Wayne Dirks, 2004-05-27 Download "InDesignCSReview", Acrobat PDF document, 105KB [17075 downloads] |
| Review of InDesign 2: InDesign for Scripture Typesetting Wayne Dirks, 2003-07-01 Download "InDesign2Review.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 94KB [16030 downloads] |
Challenges in publishing with non-Roman scripts
Challenges in publishing with non-Roman scripts
There are a number of challenges in the typesetting of non-Roman scripts. These include problems of interaction between the font and typesetting system, problems of very large character sets, and considerations of typesetting the particular script.
NRTC2 Publishing: A brief look at the various publishing packages in use by SIL today.
The following presentation was prepared for the Non-Roman Technical Consultation 2001. It presents a brief look at the various publishing packages in use by SIL today.
 | NRTC2 Publishing: A brief look at the various publishing packages in use by SIL today. Lorna A. Priest, 2001-09-14 Download "NRTC2PublishingSlides.ppt", MS Powerpoint presentation, 780KB [9043 downloads] |
Publishing Futures
The following presentation was prepared for SIL's International Publishing Department to help with their planning for transitioning to Unicode.
| Publishing Futures: Powerpoint developed for IPub participants Lorna A. Priest, 2003-07-09 Download "FutureofPublishing.ppt", MS Powerpoint presentation, 1MB [12749 downloads] |
Implementation
Writing System Implementation on the Fly: Extensibility for the Common Man
Sharon Correll
Abstract
Those needing to work with multilingual text, particularly using any kind of complex script, commonly run into two problems: input and output. On the input side, it is often necessary to use keyboarding modules that map sequences of keys to the characters needed for the languages. On the output side, smart font rendering technology may be needed to properly display or print many complex writing systems.
This presentation describes several technologies that can be used to provide extensible writing system implementations in situations where the solutions implemented as part of the operating system are inadequate. Specifically we will focus on Keyman, for keyboard input, and the Graphite system, for complex rendering.
| Writing System Implementation on the Fly: Extensibility for the Common Man Sharon Correll, 2001-08-01 Download "WSIonTheFly.ppt", MS Powerpoint presentation, 296KB [11780 downloads] |
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