□ reporter Wang Qin
Chinese people like to use every day, every day, enjoy the water and air, as indispensable, it makes use of very naturally. With the development of computer technology, people get more opportunities to facilitate the use of a variety of fonts. But not many people know that the birth of the font, recently, "China Press and Publication News" reporter visited the Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Founder Electronics) font business sector, not only to further understanding of the birth of the font, but also see the font industry under copyright issues at stake in the survival of the status quo.
Character Design -
"铁杵磨成针" process
Font is Calligraphy in the latest manifestation of the computer age, the birth of a long history and the font from the invention of Chinese characters and the Evolution of mode of transmission, printing, and gradually transform the way different from the rubbings to the wood, to the movable type printing, until the use of the computer age computer font design, each process embodied the essence of Chinese 5,000 years of civilization. And its functions from the original records to read, ideographic, evolved to the level of aesthetic appreciation of calligraphy.
According to Founder Electronics Business Unit Vice President Huang Xuejun character introduction, character design process to go through the following process, the early creative phase, based on the intent of the font style, and then into the long style of each character recognition and production stage. According to reports, before the advent of computer-aided design software, fonts, font designers skilled design work can only be filled to capacity every day the four words, and in computer-aided design of the font after the accelerated, even so, each skilled font designer to use software Design a day only 20 words. According to the current development of national character common standard, each character at least 6763 Chinese words, up to more than 21,000 Chinese characters, can be seen a long time.
In recent years, was known to the public to develop the Founder and Founder Jinglei Xu Jinglei Simplified, for example, in the production process, the Founder will make a good grid paper to be handed over to Xu Jinglei, Xu Jinglei, in strict accordance with the grid paper to be written at least 200 per day words, even after completion of the audit to the font designer, sub-standard back to rewrite. After repeatedly modified and depict, however, Xu spent six months time to finally finish the development of a character required minimum number of words --6,763 words.
Font Protection -
"Way out" of the progress
Font birth through one hundred thousand turn back, after the birth, it can not bring imagination to the designer's profit. Huang Xuejun, the new China was founded, the matrix is in the domestic industry readiness industry in Beijing, Shanghai, with matrix factory, industrial output value matrix once reached 60 billion, and now, the industry output value is expected to only a few thousand yuan. Font companies a few years ago by the 10 ~ 20, plummeted to forty-five. In fact, the modern information society, whether it is industry or personal character of the demand, in multiples to increase exponentially, font applications and broader, but the amount compared with the output gap is so large. This had to mention the biggest threat to the current font industry - piracy.
Font piracy industry profits are swallowed, but the technology is difficult to control this, said Huang Xuejun, copyright protection need to increase public awareness of copyright, but when the font companies still struggle to survive when stretched income branch imbalance, so that character is difficult to have a lot of money for business-oriented publicity and genuine appeal. Only a virtuous sustainable industrial development in order to allow users to better and more fonts. He suggested that, whether through legal means to protect the copyright of the font.
However, with the current state of the copyrighted software requirements continue to advance, people of genuine software applications is also growing awareness that the genuine use of the font has played a catalytic role. At the same time, by authorizing the use of Founder Electronics model provides users with diverse, flexible price system. A one-year license, with much more authority to pay more and more, with less pay less authorized fonts less, which is more conducive to the use of the user to purchase the font in lower costs to maximize its offer may be genuine.
Font Management -
"Stones from other hills," can learn
Font copyright for all countries to take a different form of protection. United States is the font software to protect copyright, patent provisions of the European countries useful for protection, there is the appearance of the font as a basis for protection, has used copyright laws to protect our country is the case. Japan is also a good character one of the countries industrial development, its quality and quantity of the font used is higher than my country, there are 421 kinds of registered font style, font, font style, while Japan has 3,000 kinds. And in Japan people pay for the copyright font is common sense, even if the individual will buy the cards to do with the word font.
At present, the font of the manufacturers are private, Huang Xuejun called on the government departments to help the healthy development of industrial character, the font software to help private enterprises to promote genuine. Because, for the preservation and continued development of Chinese behavior, not just a commercial act, it is the behavior of the protection of cultural treasures.
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