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Dead KaiGen Gothic link in README #8

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abelsromero opened this issue Dec 5, 2016 · 3 comments
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Dead KaiGen Gothic link in README #8

abelsromero opened this issue Dec 5, 2016 · 3 comments

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@abelsromero
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I noticed the repository to which the Kai Gen Gothic link points does no longer exist.
Googling I found this one https://github.com/minjiex/kaigen-gothic, but I don't know if this is an official continuation.

@chloerei
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chloerei commented Dec 5, 2016

Yes, it suddenly disappeared, even the accounts are gone, I feel weird. Kai Gen Gothic is base on Google Noto CJK fonts, according to a blog post(disappeared), it's convert by a commerce font editor.

I use this converted font because Prawn(asciidoctor-pdf's dependency) only support .ttf format, original Noto fonts is .otf.

And because the font's repo is disappeared, I tend to close this theme, but another book project is depending on this theme, so I will keep it until I found a better solution.

If you need a asciidoctor-pdf theme, I recommend follow official guide and create a custom theme: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf/blob/master/docs/theming-guide.adoc#custom-fonts

By the way, I think asciidoctor-pdf base on Prawn is hard to custom styles, and I found http://wkhtmltopdf.org/ is more easy: convert to html first, style by css, then convert to pdf. wkhtmltopdf support system fonts, then I can use original Noto fonts.

@chloerei
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chloerei commented Dec 5, 2016

I don't know whether minjiex/kaigen-gothic is rename from akiratw/kaigen-gothic, but I don't want to trust this font again, because akiratw suddenly disappeared without description.

@abelsromero
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Thanks for the explanation.
I just wanted to point out the link was not working, I have no experience with fonts and I totally agree that changing it for another repo without validation is not a good approach.

Gasol added a commit to Gasol/asciidoctor-pdf-cjk-kai_gen_gothic that referenced this issue Oct 28, 2019
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