LibreOffice Hangul (Korean) Font

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#1

My Korean customer thinks the Korean Hangul font in LibreOffice is
very attractive and I would like to use the same font in a DocBook
document I create for him. By looking at the document parameters for
one of the glyphs I see the name of the font but it's in Hangul. How
can I find (and refer to) the font file when I can't use unicode on
the file system (or at least I don't know how to do it)? Is there an
ASCII mapping for such font names?

Thanks so much.

-Tom

USAFA, CS-24, Class of 1965
Niceville, Florida, USA

#2

I Google-ed the name. There are galleries showing the font in Unicode fonts.

Is the font just Hangul? or does it contain others as well. Usually it is a Unicode font.

I would choose the fonts you like from the gallery display and see if you can get it free. Some of then seem to be free.

Here is the gallery I am looking at.
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Korean.html

As a collector of fonts, if you need a specific font name, I may have it. You can contact me off the list for more information.

#3

Hi,
Assign that font to a custome style.
Open the document in a zip tool.
Open styles.xml and find the style name.

Open document formats are great!

#4

Below is a quote from a Wiki page.

UnBatang seems to be a good free one, if you do not have MS's Arial Unicode, or its Batang. Actually UnBatang comes in bold as well. There are many places to find the free versions. Some easier than others. Many of the Google-ed places are a real pain to deal with.

[quote]
Korean

* Batang (바탕), BatangChe (바 탕체), Gungsuh (궁서), GungsuhChe (궁서 체) – distributed by Microsoft with its Windows operating system.
* [F] UnBatang (은바탕), UnGungsuh (은궁서) – included in most Linux distributions. Initially made by Un Koanghui (은광희) as a set of type 1 typefaces to use with Korean LaTeX. Later they were converted to opentype typefaces by Park Won-gyu (박원규). UnBatang also has a version with opentype GSUB/GPOS tables to support archaic Hangul with Hangul Conjoining Jamos.
* [F] Baekmuk Batang (백묵 바탕) – included in most Linux distributions, made by Kim Jeong-hwan (김정환) and released under a liberal license
[unquote]

#5

...
This might work:

Open a new document. Select the font. Type a few characters (doesn't
matter if they are roman or hangul). Export as PDF/A-1a. Open in Adobe
Reader: File|Preferences|Fonts.

Example: I just tried this on an asian font without a roman label & the
font reports as:
WenQuanYiMicroHeiMono (Embedded Subset)
  Type: TrueType
  Encoding: Built-in
in Adobe Reader.

And sure enough I do have that installed as:
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/wqy/wqy-microhei.ttc
from the 'ttf-wqy-microhei' package (linux).

And info on that font (yes I know it most likely isn't the one you are
after):

Description: A droid derived Sans-Seri style CJK font
WenQuanYi Micro Hei font family is a Sans-Serif style (also known as Hei,
Gothic or Dotum among the Chinese/Japanese/Korean users) high quality
CJK outline font. It was derived from "Droid Sans Fallback", "Droid
Sans" and "Droid Sans Mono" released by Google Corp. This font package
contains two faces, "Micro Hei" and "Micro Hei Mono", in form of a
True-Type Collection (ttc) file. All the unified CJK Han glyphs, i.e.
GBK Hanzi, in the range of U+4E00-U+9FC3 defined in Unicode Standard
5.1 are covered, with additional support to many other international
languages such as Latin, Extended Latin, Hanguls and Kanas. The font
file is extremely compact (~5M) compared with most known CJK fonts.
As a result, it can be used for hand-held devices or embedded systems,
or used on PC with a significantly small memory footprint. Because both
font faces carry hinting and kerning instructions for Latin glyphs,
they are the excellent choices for desktop fonts.
Homepage: http://wqy.sourceforge.net/

#6

I have been to that site before and many of the links are dead--but
others are good.

Thanks.

-Tom

#7

...

Good tips--thanks.

-Tom

#8

Yes, some/many are dead, but you can see the look and "feel" of the fonts and then Google the font names to download them.

To be honest, Arial Unicode seems to have the most glyphs. Having a dedicated Korean font would be great, but it can be hard do decide which one is best without some viewing software [FontForge on Ubuntu] that will show the characters. LibreOffice has a Insert Special Characters option that allow you to go to the different subsets - like Hangul. Actually Arial Unicode has 12+ different Hangul subsets.

Do you know what the font name your friend or business associate uses on his system? It would be nice to know that. Otherwise, you will need to find as many Korean fonts, or Unicode ones with Hangul/Korean glyphs in it.

"UnBatang" was the free font that was listed in a Wiki page for Korean Fonts. Microsoft's version is "Batang".
See if this image has the glyphs "style" you want.
http://libreoffice-na.us/other/UnBatang-Hangul.png

#9

Under Windows, yhere is BabelMap which can display all the details (including number of glyph per block) of your Unicode font collection:
http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html
Jean-Louis

#10

Thanks, Andreas, good idea.

But I used NoOp's method since it was easier for me.

Best regards,

-Tom

USAFA, CS-24, Class of 1965
Niceville, Florida, USA

#11

Thanks, NoOp, I used your idea but I already had the document so I
saved it in the format you suggested and then opened it in evince
(Ubuntu's default pdf reader).

Then under File|Properties|Fonts I found the Hangul font name:

  UnDotum

On my system I then did:

  locate UnDotum

and found this:

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unfonts/UnDotum.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unfonts/UnDotumBold.ttf

Just what I was looking for!

Thanks all--now I have the source of some great (and free) Hangul fonts.

Best regards,

-Tom

#12

Hi :slight_smile:
Wow! Nicely done :slight_smile: I think ttfs work on any system, perhaps even Macs!
Congrats and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#13

Well, I looked [Google-ed] and one site showed that UnDotum has 11,172 "Hangul Syllables". Also it appears that is has at least RPM installs available, outside of installing the .TTF files directly.

#14

아니에요 (anieyo) :slight_smile: