Johanna, I could be very wrong here, and I hope I am, but, I believe that this is a bug that has been in Director for a very long time. I am not the expert on multi-lingual director, but you may want to ask around... i know that there was someone (quite a while ago now) working with german-language editions of director on NT who was having these problems sory I cannot guide you to more of a solution: except for this: If you have fontographer, you can create fonts from scratch, or you can swipe individual characters from other fonts.... what if you took all the characters with, well, special characters that you need and put them inside a font, locating the letters between capital A & lowercase Z.... then you could insert this new font with special characters inside your movie and anytime you need to use them, change the font to the "special" character font.... I dont know if that will work for you though... especially if you are doing rigorous databasing and whatnot... -paul catanese [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Johanna, >Things to check include: >Is the font that you used when you created the text cast members installed >on the computer with Windows NT? Is it going to be installed on all users' >computers? Is it a standard font that is installed with all versions of >Windows that your users will have? >If any of the above is No, then you need to embed the font that you used in >your Director movie (see "embed font" in Help). Otherwise, the problem may >not be limited to Windows NT: any user of any other version of Windows may >be missing the font that your movie requires. Embedding a font is better t>han turning all texts into bitmaps, although if you don't need the >functionality of the text (e.g., you never allow the user to change the >size of the font), then bitmaps may be fine, too. >If this is the problem, then the only alternative to scrapping that 1000 >CDs is to tell the users to install the missing font. It may be available >on some Web site for free, or you may be bale to buy a license for >distributing it from your Web site, or in other way (like stick a floppy in >every package >:-). >When you start embedding a font, you may find that there are a few quirks >with the process, but most of them can be overcome. >Slava >At 08:48 AM 2/23/2001 +0200, you wrote: >>I have this problem (Director, not Lingo problem) on Windows Nt machines: >>Why all scandinavian special characters like ä and ö are not showing >>correctly? I could convert all text cast members to bitmaps, but I have >>already about 1000 cd copies of my work. Is there anything I could do for >>this problem? >> >>-johanna- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
