The International Macintosh Users Group presents:

Solving the Gaiji Problem: How Adobe's Creative Suite 2
Helps Japanese and Chinese Authors Publish Their Texts

Group: International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
(A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing)
Date: July 20, 2006, 7-9 p.m.
Speakers: Jim DeLaHunt; Yuki Ishioka; John Renner
Topic: Solving the Gaiji Problem: How Adobe's Creative Suite 2
Helps Japanese and Chinese Authors Publish Their Texts
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
Take Saratoga/Sunnyvale exit off 280, turn South into
Cupertino, turn left onto Mariani Avenue, left into
Infinite Loop. Meeting is held in the Singapore Room.
Please arrive by 7:10, as the door is not monitored
after this time.
Admission: $4; free for IMUG members
Contact: Roger Sherman, (650) 859-5981
roger [dot] sherman [at] sri [dot] com
Website: http://www.imug.org

Authors writing in Japanese, Chinese, or Korean frequently need to
write "gaiji", which are characters that are part of the written
language, but not available in the publisher's software or in their
fonts. This makes gaiji difficult and expensive to process and publish.
But sooner or later every serious publisher in these languages has to
tackle gaiji.

The SING Gaiji Architecture from Adobe Systems, as shipped in the
Creative Suite 2, provides an innovative new approach to solving the
gaiji problem in computer-based publishing of Han ideograph texts. Just
to add danger and the chance for humiliation, there will be live demos
of the SING software in action.

This talk builds on two previous IMUG talks on gaiji:
"SING: Adobe's New Gaiji Architecture" (9/16/2004)
<http://www.imug.org/pastevents04.html#SING>
"Gaiji: Characters, Glyphs, Both, or Neither?" (1/16/2003)
<http://www.imug.org/pastevents03.html#010816>

This talk is aimed at a general audience. It does not require knowledge
of Han ideographs, their languages, or of computer science. It aims to
expose interesting deep issues to the specialist, but be meaningful to
the non-specialist.

Recommended audience: those who are interested in Chinese, Japanese, or
Korean languages; in computer science; in language and text; in
publishing; and in the intersection of technology and culture.

* Jim DeLaHunt is a consultant in world-ready business and technology
development, and was Adobe's engineering leader for SING through mid-2005.
* Yuki Ishioka was Adobe's product manager for SING, and left Adobe
early in 2006.
* John Renner was the architect and lead engineer for SING. He left
Adobe in late 2005.

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