looking for japanese fonts

[vladuz976]

Hi, i am looking for japanese fonts. the ones that came with ubuntu aren't really enough. I know they are hard to get and expensive, especially kanji. but mainly katakana and hiragana is what I need. I need to make product catalogs in japanese. they fonts dont have to be free although that would be nicer.
any info would be appreciated.

thanks

[Sindwiller]

Well, AFAIK, the GPL DejaVu (which are the default fonts in Ubuntu) feature Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji (though some Kanji are missing :( ). But there is no decent way to get Japanese input working on Linux, I think.

I'd also need to have Japanese input on my computer, since I'm learning Japanese :D

PS. If someone knows if there is a similiar way to the OS X input system, where you could simply write the syllables in latin letters that become Hiragana or Katakana characters...

EDIT: Found something interesting : http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/System_Fonts_True_type.html

(search for Japanese)

[vladuz976]

I think you misunderstood my question a little. I am actually looking for fonts, not input methods. Input method is very easy by the way, just google for "ubuntu scim japanese" you'll find plenty of guides. It'll be just like in os x.
I already have everything working. I just need more variety as far as fonts go.

[sprwaka]

Well when I was in windows I used to get fonts from www.dafont.com
they have a pretty good selection. The only thing is that they are .ttf, .otf and .fon . But I'm guessing you know how to make it work. Hope it helps...

[Artemis3]

Search for japanese in synaptic and install all those fonts ;)

For input i use uim-anthy with the uim-applet-gnome

I just don't get scim...

[vambo]

Well, AFAIK, the GPL DejaVu (which are the default fonts in Ubuntu) feature Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji (though some Kanji are missing :( ). But there is no decent way to get Japanese input working on Linux, I think.

I'd also need to have Japanese input on my computer, since I'm learning Japanese :D

PS. If someone knows if there is a similiar way to the OS X input system, where you could simply write the syllables in latin letters that become Hiragana or Katakana characters...

EDIT: Found something interesting : http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/System_Fonts_True_type.html

(search for Japanese)


Try im-ja for Japanese input. It's in the repos (see synaptic)
Lets you type in romaji and displays the hiragana. There's then a choice of kanji you can select which have that particular furigana. I like it

[vambo]

Kotchi Gothic is OK for me, but I'm not doing anything fancy

[NMbottlecap]

I love finding an answer so I don't need to start a new thread, You all are :guitar: in my book

[AJB2K3]

Try canna and canna-utils

[Sean Dun]

Check out:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=812552

It talks about adding better fonts than the standard for Japanese.

[vadarfone]

The suggestion to search the Repository was the best option for me.

Worked fine, and now I have a load of nice fonts!

Great stuff!