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Russian language in Indesign ?

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George Bilalis

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Jan 20, 2003, 5:36:31 AM1/20/03
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Peter,

ID is available as CE C(entral) E(uropean) version doing Russian language (hyphenation + dictionary)

regards
George

peter mulders

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Jan 20, 2003, 5:32:37 AM1/20/03
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Hi all,

I have to fix a document (booklet) in 6 languages, and RUSSIAN is one of them. I try to get Russian tekst into my document, but Indesign gives me nothing then "?????????????". How can I display this Russian (cyrillisch ?) text ? Verry importent en even more URGENT.

Please help me. You can also mail me at pet...@grace.be

greetz & thanx
peter

Mike Witherell

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Jan 20, 2003, 10:13:57 AM1/20/03
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George and all,

Is there a version for Asian languages such as (specifically) Vietnamese? How does Windows OS handle that one?

Mike Witherell in Washington D.C.

George Bilalis

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Jan 20, 2003, 11:41:46 AM1/20/03
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Hi Mike,

I cann't say. No info on this.

regards
George

George Bilalis

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Jan 20, 2003, 1:20:55 PM1/20/03
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Haron,

you forgot to mention hyphenation. Doing that, can you further hyphenate and justify the pasted text in ID?

George

Harron K. Appleman

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Jan 20, 2003, 1:17:15 PM1/20/03
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Peter,

You should be able to copy and paste Russian text (and text in many other languages) from, say, a Word document into U.S. English InDesign (running on a U.S. English Windows OS). I've done this successfully for Japanese and Russian.

On the Russian project, I was able to download some free Cyrillic Unicode fonts by doing a general search on the Internet.

=-= Harron =-=

Harron K. Appleman

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Jan 20, 2003, 1:52:23 PM1/20/03
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George,

I don't know. The Russian project I did was just a few lines of text. I don't speak Russian, but the friend for whom I did the job was happy.

On the other hand, Japanese is a native language for me, and I don't know how to answer your question because there is no equivalent to English hyphenation in Japanese. Japanese fonts are generally monospaced, so justification is less of an issue, as well.

I have not tried applying foreign language dictionaries in InDesign, if that's what you're asking.

Can I manipulate the foreign language text within InDesign as I can with English? Absolutely.

=-= Harron =-=

Alan Claytor

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Jan 21, 2003, 3:16:08 AM1/21/03
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Peter,

Have you tried using the glyph palette in Indesign?
Some of the base windows fonts do have cryllic hidden in them. You would have to do a manual character replacement throught the document. But at least you'll know if your font supports cryllic characters.

Alan

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