Xara can't display imported Chinese text ?
Hi everybody,
I have a word document of an english text with the Chinese translation after each sentence. i tried to import it to Xara but instead of displaying the Chinese i am seeing some squares instead.
Is there any way that Xara can display them correctly?
Thank you
Gaf
Re: Xara can't display imported Chinese text ?
Did you first save the word document as a PDF and then bring that into Xara?
Ray
Re: Xara can't display imported Chinese text ?
Yes i tried this method and got text overlayered, and if i try to edit by adding spaces to separate them, the text moves left instead of moving right!
Re: Xara can't display imported Chinese text ?
does the font you are using support Chinese, stupid question I know.
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It's not a stupid question at all!, it is open sans as word 2016 shows it in Chinese so i i installed it but Xara still show it as squares !
Re: Xara can't display imported Chinese text ?
Guys it worked by selecting those squares and manually changing the font, Xara didnt change it automatically even after restarting it!
Thank you all for your time and help !
Re: Xara can't display imported Chinese text ?
gaftalik, I'm glad you have a solution.
What happens if you change the document language before the import to Chinese?
If that works, you can always changed back to English.
Perhaps you could upload a small sample of your original document here?
Acorn
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The Chinese text was written by a translator who sent me the font and installed it already but i have no idea why Xara doesn't recognize it though it shows as installed under Fonts!
Re: Xara can't display imported Chinese text ?
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Originally Posted by
gaftalik
The Chinese text was written by a translator who sent me the font and installed it already but i have no idea why Xara doesn't recognize it though it shows as installed under Fonts!
It is possible the Font does not have any Unicode characters.
On my machine, the following all work:
Lucinda Sans Unicode
Tahoma 現在怎麼樣棕色牛
Arial Unicode MS
Ebrima
Gadugi
Leelawadee UI
Malgun Gothic
Microsoft JhengHai
Microsoft Sans Serif
Microsoft YaHei
MS Gothic
MS Mincho
MS PGothic
Nirmala UI
Segoe UI
SimSun
Yu Gothic
Copy & Paste from a browser or MS Word into a Text Area set to Tahoma works.
As to the writing direction, I have no clue.
Acorn
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Originally Posted by
gaftalik
.... i have no idea why Xara doesn't recognize it though it shows as installed under Fonts!
the font list in xara reports those fonts that are installed in windows and that is why you see it even if xara cannot use it [windows is the only place you can install fonts; when xara installs downloaded fonts, it installs them in windows]
windows will install a vast variety of fonts that are not necessarily usable in every application; xara is no exception to this