File:王羲之十七帖.pdf

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十七帖 (seventeen exemplar) is a cursive calligraphic masterpiece written by Wang Xizhi (303–361). The original was lost but it was replicated many times over the centuries by stone carving and stone rubbing. Most of the surviving replicas are severely damaged. This work is a restoration by means of vectorization using the Inkscape software. There is a prologue in Chinese in the pdf that provides a brief explanation to the work. The front page is composed by assembling characters written by Wang Xizhi (集字). Pdf is used for output because the svg format cannot accommodate multi page and browsers cannot position Chinese characters in svg format properly (see below). A delete request was previously posted on this file because the requester thought that the content is textual. It was subsequently restored on the basis that it is ancient calligraphy.

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