Ran into a minor hiccup setting up Pleco. I just did a clean install so that my fonts would be in ROM rather than the SD card to keep everything happy. All well and good except I wanted the rest of the windows system to use the font. So I followed the instructions on MSDN. I'm familiar with the process, as I often do this with a smaller MS Song font.
It didn't work with the new font though. Eventually, after much messing around, I noticed that the older Simsun font (10meg version) that was formerly shipped with Pleco DOES work with the MSDN solution. The problem is with the new 8meg version of the font. It shares the same simsun.ttc filename as the old font, but internally the new font is called ZYSong.
Anyone else running into this issue, just follow the msdn instructions, but replace the string 'NSimSun' with 'ZYSong':
\windows\simsun.ttc,NSimSun
becomes:
\windows\simsun.ttc,ZYSong
Question though:
When the font was installed in the same directory as Pleco (default), I see two font options in Pleco prefs, SimSun and ZYSong. After I set up fontlinking, Pleco only shows me ZYSong. Have I lost anything here, or were these just aliases?
It didn't work with the new font though. Eventually, after much messing around, I noticed that the older Simsun font (10meg version) that was formerly shipped with Pleco DOES work with the MSDN solution. The problem is with the new 8meg version of the font. It shares the same simsun.ttc filename as the old font, but internally the new font is called ZYSong.
Anyone else running into this issue, just follow the msdn instructions, but replace the string 'NSimSun' with 'ZYSong':
\windows\simsun.ttc,NSimSun
becomes:
\windows\simsun.ttc,ZYSong
Question though:
When the font was installed in the same directory as Pleco (default), I see two font options in Pleco prefs, SimSun and ZYSong. After I set up fontlinking, Pleco only shows me ZYSong. Have I lost anything here, or were these just aliases?