? 2011/11/2 12:00, Sergiu Dumitriu ??:
*** Q1: Should Kai or Ming be used as the default export font for Chinese? ***
I'm far from being an expert here, but my opinion is that the Kai variant, with it's handwritten look, is better suited for printed material. Still, PDFs are also used on screen, be that a large computer monitor or a handheld device, and on screen the legibility of the Ming variant is better. One option that I like is to use Kai for normal text and Ming for tt/code elements, as a kind of monospace.
As a Chinese, I strongly recommend *song* , the most poluar font, and we seldom use ming in official documents...
Reading on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_%28typefaces%29 I got the impression that there isn't a clear distinction between Ming and Song, and some refer to the same thing with both terms. Looking at the list of CJK fonts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CJK_fonts none of the fonts that have Song in their name are under an open source friendly license, so they can't be redistributed. Please take a look at the sample PDF and see if it is acceptably similar to Song: http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/23886/ming-over-freefont.pdf Anyway, similar and acceptable :)