Apple Chinese Language Kit - Manual (Page 80)

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Entering Your Own Chinese Characters
You can use the TrueType Font Editor to create your own special Chinese characters and save
them in font files (suitcases). You can then enter these characters in your documents. You
might want to create a special Chinese character for the name of a company or person. To
learn how to use the TrueType Font Editor, see the “About TrueType Font Editor” file in the
Chinese Utilities folder in the Apple Extras folder.
After creating the font and saving it in a suitcase, you must place the suitcase in the Fonts
folder in the System Folder on your computer and restart your computer.
To enter the character you have created in a document, follow these steps:
1 Choose the font you created to use in your document.
How you do this depends on the application you are using. In SimpleText, you choose the
font from the Font menu.
2 Choose Show User Defined Characters from the Pencil menu.
The character palette appears.
3 Double-click the character to enter it in your document.
Note: If the character doesn’t appear in the document, be sure you have selected the
correct font.
Choose the input
m ode here.
Choose the font you
created in the TrueType
Font Editor here.
Click here to enter a
code for the character.
Input codes and keys
appear here.