Prinergy supports CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters using the Character Identifier (CID) font file format; it does not support the Original Composite Format (OCF) font file format.
The following features are available:
Frequently asked questions
Available font bundles
When you purchase Prinergy, one of the following bundles is available, depending on the country in which you live.
Note: You can purchase only one factory font bundle; that bundle must be appropriate to your region. For example, if you are in Japan, you can buy either the Basic Japanese or Advanced Japanese bundle, but not both.
Font bundle | Bundle contains |
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Basic Japanese | First five Morisawa font programs |
Full Japanese | All 23 Morisawa font programs |
Simplified Chinese | All SinoType font programs |
Traditional Chinese | All Monotype font programs |
Korean | All Han Yang font programs |
CJK | All of the above |
The following table lists which font bundles are available in specific countries. If you require more fonts than the ones in the available font bundle, you must purchase the fonts locally, and load them as aftermarket fonts.
Country | Available font bundle |
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Japan | Basic Japanese or Full Japanese or CJK |
People's Republic of China | Simplified Chinese or CJK |
Taiwan | Traditional Chinese or CJK |
Hong Kong | Traditional Chinese or CJK |
Korea | Korean or CJK |
CJK fonts are sold only as high-resolution versions. Japanese CJK fonts are quite expensive, both for Kodak and for customers purchasing those fonts as aftermarket packages. Kodak offers bundles as a convenience to our customers. Purchasing bundles saves the time and effort of purchasing the entire library and probably also saves money.
Some other issues to consider:
Here are the existing font bundles:
Font Protection for Factory-Installed Fonts
The only RIP property used to protect factory-installed fonts is license ID. Adobe assigns a unique license ID to each font bundle. For the fonts to be accessible, the ID of the font bundle must match the license ID specified by the RIP executable (Normalizer JTP). Serial number and product name are relevant to after-market fonts, but not factory-installed fonts.
Font protection for after-market fonts
Serial number, license ID, and product name properties of the RIP are used together to protect after-market fonts. The license ID and product name do not need to be unique on each hardware system. In the case of a Prinergy system, the license ID and product name will be the same for all component hardware systems.
The AppleTalk Font Downloader used to download the font must derive a unique serial number from some characteristic of the target hardware system. The AppleTalk Font Downloader encrypts the font files with a key derived from the serial number, license ID, and product name. For the font to be used or embedded into PDF on the target system, the RIP (Normalizer JTP) on that system must have the same serial number.
By default, and according to agreements with Morisawa, Adobe derives the serial number from the MAC (medium access control) address of the network card installed on the target system. This prevents the user from copying the installed font files from the original target system to a different system, and then using or embedding a font. To prevent the user from downloading the font from various systems, typical after-market font installers have a protection scheme that permits only a limited number of installs (for example, three).