CE fonts in PM 7.0.1

[Jana333]

From other forum discussions I have learnt that PM is not very friendly to users of CE fonts. But I still don't have any sollution to my problems. Which font would work in PageMaker with all special CE characters? At the moment I only get all in very few standard fonts, which are not suitable for my purpose. Some other fonts, which definatally have CE characters, because they appear in Word, can not be used in PM. I guess that the CE characters are in the extended character set, which will not work in PM. Any ideas, how to solve this (and please don't advice me to by InDesign, because I can't afford it at the moment).

One more font question: How to I get male an female symbol (biology) in the PageMaker? Which font would work?

Thanks in advance for any useful suggestions,

Jana

 

[Eggles]

I don't know what CE fonts are, so can't help you with that.

Re the female symbol - I have never seen it in a font. However, you could either draw it using the drawing tools in PM, or insert a piece of clipart such as found at:

http://dir.coolclips.com/Healthcare/Medical_Symbols/Female_Symbol/

 

[SnowWolf]

Hey there,

alas Pagemaker is only able to use the first 256 characters of any one font. So if the font you are using has this extended characters on a later coding, Pagemaker can't pick them up.
The best would be to use a CE font i.e. Helvetica CE. The only problem is, that if the CE fonts available don't fit into your layout graphically there is not that much you can do.
I know, that Pagemaker often displays CE extended characters, when a text has been written in Word and then placed, but in this cases Pagemaker won't print correctly to a postscript printer or when creating a pdf.


Hope that helps,
SnowWolf