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I have successfully run DimSum on a Linux machine with Java 1.4 installed. To install and use DimSum, download the DimSum JAR file http://www.mandarintools.com/download/DimSum.jar.
To use DimSum you will also need to have some Chinese TrueType fonts ftp://cle.linux.org.tw/pub2/fonts/ttf/unicode/bitstream installed. To get Chinese fonts working, you can also copy a Chinese Unicode True Type font to the lib/fonts subdirectory where Java is installed. The simplest way to run DimSum on Linux is go to a command prompt, cd to the directory with the JAR file, make sure java is in your path, and type java jar DimSum.jar. # Running the Program

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