problems with fotn

[tinalesnik]

Heloo!

I'm a new user and I need help.my english izsn't very ok, so i hope you will understand me.

my teacher send me a file in word. i need to form it in pagemaker. but there isone problem. when i place this text in pm, letter ? is shown like e, other letters like š and ž are shown correctly (font is times new roman).

i've tried everything: I've changed font, i've tried to replace this letter (you know rechange and replace - i marked this letter and I've tried to replace it but it doesn't work. I hope you could help me. I think that this problem is connected with the fact that pagemaker doesn't support open type fonts. but my friends has the same program and the same version and he doesn't have this problems.

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, tinalesnik,

> > this problem is connected with the fact that pagemaker doesn't support open type fonts.

Correct.

This page - Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish, or Central European (CE) fonts don't print correctly (PageMaker 7.x on Windows) - in the Adobe PM Support KB should help.

Your real answer is to move to an application which fully supports multi-byte fonts - Adobe InDesign.

Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.

 

[shannum]

You are right, PM doesn't support any characters out of the ASCII character set. We had this EXACT problem trying to print Shoshone words. The fix that I had to do to make this work in our PM (version6.52) Was to buy Macromedia's Fontographer and create a new font using our normal text font, which happens to be NewCenturySchoolbook. The key is that your new characters have to be able to be accessed through the regular keyboard or the ASCII ALT + numeric keypad. Much like ALT+0241 creates the ñ.
I hope this helps

 

[BionicJohn]

Yes, font mapping is a workaround.

Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.