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Can't Paste Russian (Cyrillic) text into Illustrator 9.0

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Enrico Latour

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Oct 22, 2002, 7:55:14 PM10/22/02
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Good day,

I am using Adobe Illustrator 9.0. I have document created in Illustrator in english. I am trying to replace the english text by russian and it is not working. I am trying to copy Russian text from a Word document and paste it into Adobe Illustrator 9.0 to replace the english text. I get question marks pasted in the document instead of the actual Russian characters. I have tried to copy from word and paste it in notepad and it is not working either. Would you have a solution for this problem? In my languages options in Illustrator I don't have the russian language could that be a problem? I am able to write text in Russian in the AI document...but cannot copy and paste it from my word document.

Help! :o)

thank you
Enrico

BobHill

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Oct 23, 2002, 9:32:54 AM10/23/02
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Enrico,

Remember that text is ASCII and to make it look like the original in Illustrator, you have to have the same font that was used. But if it's a Russian language you won't be able to use it unless you have Russian language Windows. If it's a Russian/Cyrillic font (such as Symbol) with English Windows, and you have that on your system, you should be able to get it into Illustrator.

Bob

jonson

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Oct 23, 2002, 6:21:47 PM10/23/02
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First raste text in Quark or Corel, then copy again and paste in AI.

Don Marchetti

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Oct 24, 2002, 10:40:52 AM10/24/02
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Enrico,
I use a free-ware font called cyrillic that is readable in AI. The layout is not in the standard cyrillic keyboard but in a transliterated layout. I can E-mail it to you if it will help.

Don

Harron K. Appleman

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Oct 24, 2002, 2:59:25 PM10/24/02
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Enrico,

I did this for a friend a while ago. If I remember correctly, I was able to paste the text into InDesign 2.0 because it has far superior support for Unicode fonts.

I set the type in several Unicode fonts, converted to outlines within InDesign, then exported to EPS. I was then able to work with the outlines (paths) in Illustrator.

If you don't have InDesign, and if the Word document is not too large, I would be happy to take a crack at it. (I don't have that many Unicode fonts, but I can give you a few choices.)

=-= Harron =-=

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