The Second Wave of Japanese Desktop Publishing
6 July 2003
The Japanese market has lagged somewhat behind the trend in Europe and America for the adoption of desktop workstations in the publishing industry, sticking with tried and tested proprietory systems to a very large extent.
In this extended feature article Joel Breckinridge, who has over 15 years experience of the Japanese design and prepress industries, looks at the reasons for this. He also takes a look at some breaking technologies which may mean that the workflows we take for granted in the West may soon enter the world of complex scripts – and even make a good job of adapting to the local demands involved.
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Conclusion
06/07/2003
Weight of technology will lead to gradual ongoing changes
Cultural differences
06/07/2003
Conservative attitudes amongst managers and professionals need to be overcome
Japanese layout and the promise of InDesign J
06/07/2003
Breakthrough as applications begin to adopt Japanese methods rather than adapted Latin
GX legacies
06/07/2003
Dodging the OpenType juggernaut with ATSUI and MacOS X
Dueling fixes
06/07/2003
Competing standards and glyph sets muddy the waters
The font technology failure
06/07/2003
Models adapted from Latin typography don’t fulfill expections of quality in the Japanese market
It’s the economy…
06/07/2003
The publishing and advertising industries still struggle to pay off debts incurred during the 1990s
Input
Joel Breckinridge
e:jbreckinridge@mac.com
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