Hey all, My wife (and by extension, myself) is having a particular problem that I would like to bring to the floor....
Julie runs a multi-lingual pre-press and production business out of the home. What she does is takes an English publication and mates translated copies so that all versions of the publication share the same page numbering and general text layout. One of her current projects contains the following set of languages: English, Spanish, French, Thai, Japanese, Korean, and Traditional Chinese. I am able to use all of the other translated copies except for the Chinese. She receives the copy in Word 98 formatting. From there it needs to be imported into Illustrator, flattened into an image file and placed into Quark so that final copies can be made. Certain image files are to be blown up to 700 percent so text quality is of utmost importance. I can type in Chinese on my computer, so I know the Language Kit is acting properly (I am using a Mac, just to be clear). Every time I try to open a Chinese Word file, I am greeted with jumbled text. I can cut and paste into something like Simple Text but I am afraid that Word is putting formatting into the text so that it is not correct. I do see Chinese text, but formatting symbols are everywhere. My question is....Does anybody have experience with Chinese Word documents, namely getting the text to display properly so that it may be inserted into other programs? Any help would be greatly appreciated. (and may be entitled to a large donation of homemade raspberry preserves from the Bos berry patch) �ͦͳ���@���@�s (thanks in advance), Matthew Bos PS-- Computer programs are as follows : Mac OS X, 9.1, Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark, Acrobat, Word 98, Word X, and about 8000 fonts.
