Eastern language fonts ( Thai )

[rizpar]

Hi,
I am currently working in Thailand and would like to use Pagemaker as my DTP program. I have installed Thai fonts into the default windows directory and C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts\Reqrd\CMaps - which was the only way I could get Photoshop to pick up Thai fonts.
Now, pagemaker has the Thai fonts in its list, and will display them, but I cant cut and paste Thai text from any source - Microsoft office or Photoshop. Since I cant type Thai this is a bit of a problem. Does anyone know how to cure this? I imagine its the same for Korean, Chinese etc...

Regards,
Dave

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, rizpar,

See if this site helps:

http://www.asiasoft.com/English/

Iechyd da! John
00:00 23/09/2003 BST

 

[rizpar]

Hi John,
thanks for that, I've had a look and there dosnt seem to be any Thai version of pagemaker...and as I say, the English version supports Thai to the extent that I can pick up the fonts, select them and type, I just cant cut and paste from other programs....

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, rizpar,

I assumed that Thai fonts were double byte, but it seems it's the old story of PM only seeing the first 255 characters of a font, and so not capable of seeing the full set of characters/glyphs used by Uicode/opentype fonts.

Another reason to move over to InDesign.

Iechyd da! John
23:26 23/09/2003 BST