GENERATION OF PAGE LAYOUT OF CHINESE BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS MICROPROCESSORS
Ang Y · Chinese Journal of Computers · 1984
Difficulties caused by raster output nature of laser system are overcome by hardware software integrated system design. The design method of such a system is discribed in this paper. Compressed Chinese fonts are stored hierarchically and the characters in current use are selected from the disc and transmitted to the local memory of character generator, therefore no access to font disc is required during the output of a whole book. A new method of describing page layout and a new technique of generating characters section by section are used. Am 2900 bipolar bit-slice microcomputer plays an important role in obtaining high generating speed at low cost.