Question for Polish, Czech, Russian, Turkish Pagemaker users!!!

[Nicu_G...@adobeforums.com]

<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm Nicu...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have to publish a technical manual in 9 languages
among are polish, czech, turkish and russian.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a problem printing some of the characters in
this languages and I was wandering how do you guys manage?...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PLEASE HELP ME with this problem:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>maybe you can supply Arial font for your languages
because I'm tired to make font and seeing them NOT working.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks a lot!</FONT></DIV>

[John_...@adobeforums.com]

Hi, Nicu,

I've scoured the KB and this is the best I can find.

"International TrueType Font Subsets are Unavailable"
<http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/197ea.htm>

"Some Windows TrueType fonts (e.g., Arial and Times New Roman) contain an
extended character set, which includes subsets of characters required by
Western, Central European, Eastern European, Greek and Turkish languages.
You can make these subsets available by installing Multilanguage Support
in Windows. These font subsets appear as separate font listings in supported
applications (e.g., WordPad or Adobe PageMaker). Illustrator uses only the
Western default character sets, however."

Iechyd da! John
14:18 13/11/2003 GMT

[Gabrie...@adobeforums.com]

Nico Giosanu, I work doing the same thing you do. I am a technical manual writer and we do them in 20 different languages. I am currently working on 3 manuals, a Slovak, Czech and Greek. For the Greek I am using "Hellas" font For the Slovak and Czech I am using Arial CE. When I work with Russian I use Helvetica Cyrilic.
I usually change the language for each progam I am using though regional setting in the control panel (Windows CD required).
While in PageMaker, if I am copying the text from MS Word, I have to paste it into WordPad first so that the characters do not change and the styles do not get imported into PageMaker.

Note: You must have NotePad and set to the target language and target font as well.

I just now realized that your problem is mostly with printing. I am having the same issues and the only thing I can do is to switch to InDesign. We have ordered our copy and it should be here in a week.
PageMaker's support for OpenType fonts and other languages is pretty non-existing. You should move to InDesign being that we are in the same line of work and I have looked everywhere for the solution to this problem. It seems you have to have PageMaker CE or you are out of luck.

[Gabrie...@adobeforums.com]

I now have new Fonts for Slovak Czech and other latin languages. The font is Arial L2. Arial CE doesn't work good with Slovak an Czech. Arial L2 works perfect and my PDFs are printing nicely. :D
I guess there is a solution after all!