Adobe Font Chinese

[Percival Blanco]

Sorryabout the trouble. Could you please confirm the exact version of macOS & Illustrator? Also, would it be possible for you to share the fonts with us? You can upload them to Creative Cloud/ Dropbox/ Google Drive and share the download link here or via DM. We'll check it at our end.

Packaging an illustrator.ai file for a client and the included, non expanded Chinese font is missing from the package. I switched to a few different fonts and eventually tried one installed from the Adobe fonts - Hellofont ID QingHuaLi - and it still didn't work. If I can't package, is there another way to get the adobe font file?

Our company used to use Ping Fang (mostly because of the wide range of weights and also being available in TC and SC). With Adobe's font changes, I've been searching for a replacement. 'Source Han Sans' appeared to be a good substitute, but when I use it in InDesign the punctuation spacing is very tight. (Close to how we would place it in english, but chinese uses the same space for all characters. Any idea how to fix this? The preview text on the adobe fonts website shows correctly.

We are sorry for the delay in response. I am unable to reproduce the issue at my end. Is it possible for you to share the screenshot of how it's appearing in InDesign? Is the same happening with other Adobe applications like Photoshop, Illustrator? Please also share the details of your operating system.

Thank you for the response Harshika! Atached is a screenshot of the punctuation spacing I'm talking about. My compter is set to English as I don't know chinese. The chinese text is provided by our translation team and I simply copy and paste. They tell me, however that this spacing is incorrect so I need to come up with a font that works the same as Ping Fang used to, or find a work-around.

The issue "[iPad] Fonts installed from creative cloud show on context toolbar with name in Chinese " (REF: AFD-6170) has been improved by the developers in internal build "2.1.0.1736".

This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.

Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.

If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.

@Serif Info Bot I still have this problem. I am using Affinity Designer V2.3 on my iPad Pro 6th Gen. I installed all my adobe fonts through creative cloud, which is shown up in the iPadOS font section. Is there a difference or rather a problem when installing fonts like this?

We are aware of an intermittent issue when installing fonts from Creative Cloud, where the font will appear as missing until the app is restarted. It has been passed to the devs for investigation. Thanks for your report.

I have the same issue. I installed a font on the Creative Cloud app on my iPad Pro. It is working fine in all Apple apps like Pages. But it is not working on Affinity. The Font name shows up in the Font list in Affinity Publisher, it is even shown written with the proper glyph shapes. But if I set a text to this font, it will be shown as missing font and will be displayed with a substitute font. I tried closing and reopening the app (clearing it from the recent apps screen) but it does not help. It is a bit discouraging that this issue has not been corrected in more than a year now. I was very excited using the affinity apps on my iPad and switching to Affinity from Creative Cloud but this is my very first test of Affinity Publisher, and I came across this issue straight away and cannot find a solution.

UPDATE: I just uninstalled and reinstalled the font, then closed and reopened Affinity Publisher and now it is working. I do not know if it will be working from now on, or next time it will be broken again. Will definitely post if I have more issues.

I have installed a number of adobe CJK fonts and I am having trouble with some glyphs. Simplified characters in general are not rendered at all and some more rare japanese characters. Traditional characters are more or less always rendered. Here's a screenshot of the same sentence from both my computer and my phone:

As you can see quite a few characters are missing. I'm running a HiDPI display with scaling (1440p) with 163 DPI, i'm not sure if that plays a role in this. I have tested other CJK font packages and those work a lot better, only seldom not displaying something... Ideas?

Under OS 9.2.2, save your doucment in Microsoft Word document, then close the file and place it into ID. You might see weird characters, but do not worry. Select all the text and change the font to one of the fonts that came wih the OS; for Trditional Biaukai, Apple LiGothic, or Apple LiSung; under Simplify Chinese: Kai, Hei, or Song.Text should change to the right characters. Let me know how this works. I have been able to find other ways to bring the text into ID but this one right now would be the simplest. P.S. Saving the doucment as RTF works too.

Can you let me know how well it works with Chinese - and can / could I use thirdparty fonts (ie Big 5 Arphic fonts) with Adobe ID 2? And do you have any information on Cyrillic font faces in ID? I was going to go with Pagemaker, but if Adobe ID works, that would be better.... Thanks.

I have done several projects in Chinese, Korean and Japanese and beside the work around I am veery happy on the results.

If you want I can try your fonts, just send one set of the family you have: msan...@nuskin.comor if you have the demo version, install the fonts inside the fonts folder in the InDesign Folder, next time you start InDesign you should be able to see the font in the menu. Import some text and change the font to the one you are testing. If you see weird or pink squares the majority of the characters and not supported, you could try schanging it to the font installed by the ALK and see if the text looks different.Any how let me know if I can be of any assistance.

Yes you can work with Any PC font in ID2 but you have to put them either in a font folder named "Fonts" in the InDesign folder or in the Fonts folder of the Adobe folder found inside the Application support folder of the System folder. It works but you have no automatic control over punctuation and the like, i.e. a line can begin with a period or a comma or whatever. This works too for any language actually; Cyrrilic, Hungarian and the like. No justification though. For that you need the special edition ID 1.5.2 ME or CE from Winsoft France. With these editions you can import any kind of text from Word and a few other word processors. Vanilla InDesign imports text as Unicode only. Antonina, don't go with Pagemaker. I myself have licenses of Pagemaker Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Although it is made especially for these languages it was a nightmare to work with it. It inconsistently dropped characters from pages without any warning. That is, a page printed twice could have holes in it one time and print fine the next time. Imagine sending such files to a service bureau. I had to check every line carefully every time I printed. I never earned my money back from this expensive debacle. I chose Pagemaker over Quark because Pagemaker is cheaper. Well I had to buy Quark Asian versions after all. I now have all Asian versions of Pagemaker and of Quark but work in InDesign vanilla 2.0.1 and ME. And to remedy the lack of Asian support I wrote some scripts. Go for ID2. Warm regards, Samir

InDesign 2.0.1 fixes the imput problem. NOW we can actually type the chracters if necessary whitin InDesign 2.0.1. The bad news is that my 3rd party fonts do not work in ID. They are from DynaFonts Lab. I might need to give them a call to find out if they have an update or something. Otherwise, does any one know of good Asian typefaces that will work great with ID. I will give a call to Adobe too, to find out if they have Chinese and Korean Pro versions.

How do you proceed when editing chinese characters in ID 2.0? In what ID2.0.1 is different from the 2.0 release regarding thge double-byte character problem? I use a German release of ID2.0 and "AsianSuite2000" from UnionWay International Corp. for the chinese chararcters and I can only import and format - but not edit - chinese characters.

It seemed that InDesign 2.0 could not access the imput method of the Operating system. Exactly what was the problem, I do not know, I just know that whenever you selected the Chinese Keyboard and type the character, you could select them character youi needed, but as soon as you clicked return to paste it in your text frame in just added weird characters. In InDesign 2.0.1I hope you have that versionfixed the problem. According to Adobe if your fonts are up today with the unicode regulations, you might not have any problem typeing in Chinese.The first thing that you need to do is make sure that you have the Apple Language Kits instlled for the Langauges you are trying to typeset. Then select the Langauge from the pull down menuyou should be able to see a flag of the localize version of the system you are running in you mnenu bar. Select the Chinese version you are going to typeset: either Traditional or Simplified. Another menu item appear in your menu bar a pensil icon from it select show menu in Enlgish or your main language. Choose PinYin for Traditinal typeing; ABC for Simplified. If the software you are using support the ALK you can start typing. When you type a character, lets say xian a pop-up pallete appear showing you the different choices you have, hopefully you know the character you are looking for, once you find it select it and press return. The character should be placed where you have your cursor in the text.P.S. make sure that you also have selected a chinese font bofore you start typing.I hope this helps, if not let me know.

Just wish they didn't issue a separate version for ME type. I hate these solutions (particularly if they come from WinSOFT who were responsible for the awful ME PM). The QXP Asian editions were not a great idea either, particularly the Korean version. I grew ulcers trying to make layouts print. I need often to include ALL languages in the one document which I can do in standard Quark XPress with certain XTensions. I am sure with only a little thought and effort ID2 will eventually be able to do right to left layouts as well then it will truely be THE solution for multilingual work. Meanwhile I am still on Quark for its inate reliablity.

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