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  • AsianSuite2000 (Win) $ | Demo available
  • DeskTop Publishing Sources (Mac)$
    • Japanese Language Kit 1.0(JLK) offers the simplest and most straightforward method of adding Japanese to your Macintosh System 7.1.  It provides two truetype fonts (Maru Gothic and Hon Mincho), the kotoeri FEP, and artificial intelligence help in typing Japanese from a Roman letter keyboard (Romaji input).
  • J-Text (Win)
    • J-Text is a free word processor that lets you edit, print, e-mail, and communicate in Japanese.  It comes complete with a Japanese editor (FEP), Japanese font capabilities and text display technology, and other features.  It also comes with learning features for those who are trying to improve their knowledge of Japanese.
  • NJStar (DOS)
    • NJSTAR Japanese WP 3.1 can be used to input/write/edit/print Japanese documents on a MSDOS and Windows 3.1 PC.  It is designed for people whose PC are too slow to handle Win 95/98/NT.
  • NJStar (Win) $
    •  Features include Unicode RTF support: open and save Japanese Rich Text Format (RTF) files that are compatible with Microsoft Word97 and Word2000; copy formatted Japanese text in between NJStar and Word97 and/or Word2000; copy and paste (into NJStar/Word97) formatted documents previously saved on Japanese Windows, and/or documents saved with other Japanese enabling software products.
    • Program supports saving files as HTML, send e-mail and copy text in different codes, automatic wrap clipboard text.
    • Character Sets: supports Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) level 1 and level 2 character set, in EUC format.
    • Input Methods: KanaKanji, Romaji, Four-Corners, Strokes, Nelson index, Unicode, radical lookup and English-to-Japanese methods.
    • Japanese-English Dictionary: Japanese to English and English to Japanese two-way fast lookup, with 100,000 entries in the dictionary.
    • Learning Japanese: with KanjiInfo function; Display the dictionary before selecting the Kanji.
    • Bilingual Menu: Display menu items in either English (default) or Japanese.
    • File Conversion: Reads and Writes EUC, Shift-JIS, New-JIS, Old-JIS and NEC-JIS. Exports to Graphics format for other Windows desktop publishing software.
    • Fonts: Bitmap Fonts are supplied in Basic Version, NJStar True Type Japanese Fonts are supplied in Professional Versions.
    • Full 32-bit Windows program, works under Windows 95/98, Windows NT and Windows 2000. No other software required. Comes with dockable toolbar, status bar, search bar, input bar and ruler.
    • Character formatting: Multiple font faces and point sizes; Multiple foreground and background colors; Character styles include Bold, Italic, Underline, superscript & subscript.
    • Paragraph formatting: Left Indentation, right Indentation, hanging Indentation, centering, left and/or right justification, double spacing.
    • Tab support: Left, right, center and decimal tab positions.  Tabs can be shown on the ruler.
    • Block editing: Highlights block with mouse or keyboard, cut, paste or delete the block, multiple (currently 200) level undo. Fast two-way search and flexible text replacement.
    • Embedded picture: Import pictures from disk file or clipboard, supports Bitmap, device independent bitmap and metafile formats.
    • File input and output: Supports the import and export of normal Text format, Rich Text Format (RTF - compatible with WinWord) and NJStar native format. Unlimited file size using Windows’ virtual memory capability.
    • Printing: Works on all printers that Windows supports; "Vertical Printing" capability.
    • Double-Byte Editing: Automatic line wrap with consideration of punctuations. Full double-byte aware, no nonsense half Kanji. All operations are performed on full characters.
    • Other features: Page break and automatic repagination; pages header and footer; multiple columns format; table support; and  protected and hidden text.
  • JWP (Win) $
    • NJWIN (shareware, US $49; the current version is 1.0) supports windows programs to display Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters under the English Win NT/95 environment. It comes with 16x16 bitmap font.  All CJK coding standards are supported by NJWIN.
    • NJWIN supports only 16-bit applications under Win NT/95, so you need to run the 16-bit version of Netscape, giving up Java and other goodies. (The current version doesn't run under Win 3.1.).
 

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