ைலஒணா ருஒந
Aloha, Ron:
I tried that too. I used a button with the traversal off, put this
script in the button, then selected the text in the field and press
the button:
set the textfont of line 1 of fld "Tamil_Script" to "GIST-TMOTKalyani
Bold Italic,Unicode"
Nothing happens. no changes of glyphs for the Kalyani font, no crazy
characters now (as when you select form the font menu) and no error msg.
BUT the font displayed is still "InaiMathi" which is the default
Tamil Font for Unicode on the Mac... but, and this is strange... if I
query the field now
put the textfont of line 1 of fld "Tamil_Script"
it returns:
GIST-TMOTKalyani Bold Italic,Unicode
but InaiMathi is still appearing..
More news: my source says:
"But there is a practical problem here. Most of the GIST Tamil Unicode
fonts distributed free are meant for use on Windows PCs. Rendering of
Tamil glyphs in Unicode is done differently in Windows (use a rendering
engine called UNISCRIBE) as compared to Apple Mac (Mac uses ATSUI
search engine to deal with Open Truetype fonts for Unicode."
Perhaps this is part of the problem.. but these fonts appear fine in
InDesign and BBedit...
I working on repackaging these for the ATSUI engine... maybe that
will fix it, but I still think this is a Rev Bug... if some apps show
the font, but Rev doesn't... ??
Sivakatirswami
On Sep 12, 2005, at 8:26 AM, ron barber wrote:
Hi
Are you selecting the text and then changing the font from the font
menu? This will not work with Unicode text. Try explicitly setting
the textfont to "Kalyani,Unicode"
setting the font of unicode text from the menu does not work in its
current form. Someone please prove me wrong.
HTH,
Ron
On Sep 11, 2005, at 9:11 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
No one responded to my earlier query on Tamil font. Let me try
again, simpler:
Platform: OSX
I have a field with unicode Tamil script, I enter a single
characater, it defaults to InaiMathi Tamil font, which is in the
Apple system. I select the character and change it to a different
Unicode Tamil font, (Kalyani) it shows two square boxes for each
of the two bytes instead of the proper glyph from the Kalyani font.
If I type the same character in BBEdit or InDesign, select it and
switch to Kalyani, the proper glyph is displayed. But not in
Rev... if I query frorm the msg "put the textfont of char 1 to
2..." I get "Kalyani,unicode" if I query "put the charToNum of
char 1 to 2 of fld "tamil Script" I get 2965: which *is* indeed
the correct unicode, code point for this Tamil character... but
the glyph for the character is not displayed!
OK, I cut and past the two chars from Rev into BBEdit... and I get
a weird character. using "Re-open using Encoding" and select
Unicode, UTF-16 and presto, those two characters that I copied
from rev appear as Kalyani in BBEdit...
So before I bugzilla this... I just want to be very sure I'm not
missing something.
Fishing in the dark here: is Rev not capable of displaying Unicode
UTF-16 characters? These are openType true type fonts... I true
some other .otf fonts... roman... they all display correctly
Sivakatirswami
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