[While the mailing list archive is down I can't search for previous answers to this, so apologies if this is asked and answered already.]
I'd like to use the Chinese setting facility in ConTeXt, and am going through the instructions given in the "Chinese in ConTeXt" manual. I'm finding it very tough to locate the utilites needed to prepare the fonts.
the fontutil can be download from http://learn.tsinghua.edu.cn/homepage/015450/prog.html there are windows/linux/solaris version and the name is gbkfonts now. I think you can read this chinese web page.
In particular, I've been looking for 'chpfb' or 'gbpfb', which will enable me to convert a TrueType font into several Type 1 fonts and corresponding tfms, or the 'gbenc' shellscript which will enable me to create the necessary tfms and encodings to use the ttf directly.
Unfortunately they are proving very difficult to track down in the locations pointed to by the manual, which presumably are now out of date.
I have access to both Windows and Linux platforms to run these on, so if anyone can point me at a place where I can now get them I'd be very grateful. Even better, if someone actually has a working Chinese set-up, a few pointers as to how you got there would be brilliant!
there are a simple setup for chinese in context here: http://bbs.ctex.org/cgi-bin/topic.cgi?forum=8&topic=28&show=90 also a chinese page.
Wang