Re: [Devel] key stroke order

[Wenlin Institute]

Dear Alex Madon and anyone interested in Chinese character stroke order,

A font that displays Chinese characters stroke-by-stroke in standard 
order is a part of Wenlin software. The font is in a unique private 
format, not TTF. It has over 14,000 characters (both simple and full 
form, indexed by Unicode). The currently published version of Wenlin 
(2.5) shows only plain strokes of uniform thickness, without 
ornamentation. The version under development dynamically generates 
more aesthetic stroke outlines, which it renders using the excellent 
FreeType library. A sample may be seen at 
http://www.wenlin.com/sample.gif .

Best Wishes,

Tom Bishop

At 12:57 PM +0200 9/10/01, Alex Madon wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I would like to know if the stroke order information for
> drawing Chinese and Japanese characters is store into
> a TTF file.
> (It seems it is, because ttf are vectorial files).
> If so, does somebody have the name of the function to
> get this info from the TTF file.
>
> My goal is to create a picture from each character
> and display in it the character plus the stroke order (from what point to
> what point, etc....)
>
> Alex
>
>
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