Greek txt i quark

[andybak]

Hi guys!
We have received a text in greek in a word doc. It opens fine on PC in all programmes, but not on Mac, except as HTML in "Mail". We have tried to save in diff. versions of Indesign and quark on the PC (which works) but when opened on Mac it's all messed up(lot's of little square boxes and such). Copy/paste from "Mail" won't work either.
Does anyone have an explanation to this problem?
we're runnin´ Mac OS X (Panther)and need to work with the text in Quark 4 or 6.
Thanx in advance
Andy, CPH-DK

 

[signal49]

It sounds like you don't have the font.... The little squares that show up mean that the character for the keystroke it uses doesn't have an actual assigned character in that font. I'm not sure why it would open OK on PC though. Can you tell what font it is and bring it over to your Mac? (I haven't done that yet, but it's supposed to work on OS X.) Can you make all your text changes on PC and then save as an eps or pdf for output - since it opens ok on the PC…

 

[andybak]

hmm I have tried diff. fonts -all standard fonts- still wont work. The EPS /PDF suggestion is not too good for us either.. It looks to me as Windows, by default, has some sort of support for other character sets other than the usual set.. maybe it's a general Mac issue rather than quark trouble?

 

[MarcusStringer]

I think Macs have a different setup when it comes to charactor sets... I've had the same trouble with an Arabic font called Translit LS.
The mac changes everything around, having said that,
I dont think the mac handles asscii codes unless you install the Unicode components
see the help menu on you system. and do a search for unicode

Marcus

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