Korean characters needed in Illustrator

Michael Stumpo

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Jun 13, 2002, 4:38:36 PM6/13/02

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I need to create a document that contains english and korean content. What if anything would be required to have this happen??

For example:

One paragraph will be in english.

Same paragraph needs to be in Korean

Marcus Johnstone

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Jun 13, 2002, 6:55:42 PM6/13/02

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I realize that my project is slightly different from what your asking, and that there are probably other ways to do this, but just as an example, I was able to take Korean text from a website and place it into Illustrator 10 on Windows 2000 (English version). I took the raw ASCII version of the Korean text found in the Source of the web page, something like this...

한국어

... and copied and pasted it into Illustrator with the text field set to the Korean font, GulimChe. (The font was installed on Windows 2000 when viewing Korean web pages using IE.) I found that Illustrator displayed the Korean characters on screen just fine, but I had to convert the text to Outlines in order to get it to print.

The key for my project seemed to be the raw ASCII... copying the Korean straight from the webpage itself didn't work. Anyway, not sure if this helps or not, but it may give you some ideas.

Marcus

Chris Anemone

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Jun 15, 2002, 5:31:28 AM6/15/02

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I don't know how you did this, Marcus. I've NEVER been able to get unicode characters to show up in Illustrator. I don't think anyone can because it's not Unicode compatible. I tried what you said and it didn't work. I'm using I-10 on XP Pro.

It would be REALLY nice *hint hint Adobe* if the next version of Illustrator was Unicode compatible (Photoshop and InDesign too!)

Robert Warren

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Jun 16, 2002, 12:36:35 PM6/16/02

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I "cut and paste" Unicode Chinese and Japanese all the time into Illustrator. I use it to create titles for After Effects.

Make sure you are running WIN2K or XP. Install the IME. Before you open any apps select the language you are using as the "input method".

Cut and paste. If you're taking UNICODE text from Word you should paste it into notepad first to remove whatever extra "Stuff" Word adds to the clipboard.

Then copy and past into Illustrator.

It works great in IL9 and IL10!

Chris Anemone

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Jun 17, 2002, 3:23:28 AM6/17/02

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Oh! You use the IME!

I only have the fonts installed for viewing the webpages, I don't have the IME installed.

I'll have to try that one day.

Ben Salisbury

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Jun 17, 2002, 11:15:33 AM6/17/02

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And if you don't have 2000 or XP, you can create it in word (with IME) and then print to file using a postcript printer driver, You lose editability(because it is now vector). but it'll get you running.

-Ben

Marcus Johnstone

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Jun 17, 2002, 1:09:25 PM6/17/02

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Just for clarification, on my web based example above, I'm not using IME since the text I'm pasting into Illustrator isn't Unicode. I'm using the specific ANSI character set that is used for that language, for example: Traditional Chinese (BIG5), Simplified Chinese (GB2312), Korean (iso-2022-kr), etc.)

Since most of the translations I deal with are for the web, graphics and print, I've been using IE to convert any Unicode I receive into its respective language character set before I work with it.

Anyway, I've used this technique successfully in Illustrator10 & Photoshop6 on Win98 and Win2000. As a note though, Win98 is a bit of a hassle, but it has work for me.

Cheers,

Marcus