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Language Fonts
Language fonts and non-Latin fonts
Faces offers a range of language fonts including:
Mulitlingual
In addition to Central European, Cyrillic and Greek fonts we can now offer support for a variety of other language scripts including CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean), Hebrew and Arabic. Please call Faces on 01276 38888 for these.
See also our Font CD language solutions
A word about language fonts and Mac OSX
We are increasingly being asked for foreign language fonts. Faces has, for many years, supplied and supported Central European, Cyrillic and Greek fonts. Until the advent of the Mac OSX operating system there were straightforward solutions available.
The most common enquiry is when the typesetter or printer has received, typically, a Word document from their client, composed on a Windows PC. This will usually be straight text which needs to be imported into either Quark Xpress™ or Adobe InDesign™ using a Macintosh™ computer.
The majority of enquiries now come from customers using Macintosh’s Panther or the latest Tiger versions of OSX, but they may still be relying on their preferred application, Quark Xpress 6.0 or 6.5, to paginate and reproduce the author’s text.
When Quark Xpress 6/6.5 is the preferred application we have to advise that, using conventional PostScript Type 1 fonts is, realistically, a ‘non-starter’.
Whilst the recently released (June’06) Quark Xpress v.7 is now a ‘Unicode compliant’ application, older versions (which at the time of writing, most Quark users are still using), are not. This means that the language extension fonts that support Central Europe, Greek or Russian (Cyrillic) cannot be reliably used in ‘Non-Unicode compliant’ applications.
One solution, which many are taking by default, is to switch to Adobe CS applications such as InDesign. These applications are Unicode compliant and fully support extended language fonts, within the application.
However, Faces has an alternative solution, if Quark Xpress (older than v.7) has to be used, and that is to use ‘hFonts’. This is a font format developed by DTP Types Limited specifically to overcome the difficulties of using ‘MacRoman’ Type 1 fonts on Mac OSX with Non-Unicode applications, such as Quark 6 or 6.5. hFonts are available from www.faces.co.uk or the Faces office.
The hFont format performs like a Type1 font and has also been tested in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, PhotoShop, Microsoft Word, Nisus Writer, and Apple Text Edit.
Transferring files across PC and Mac platforms
Once the fonts and format have been decided upon, the next problem you may encounter is the difference between the character layout of the originating PC and the Macintosh.
If you have a PC Word Doc (Unicode), appropriate Unicode fonts (hFonts or OpenType) and Unicode compliant applications (eg Quark v.7, InDesign etc) on Mac OS/X, the Word document should flow-in correctly. You just need to apply the Unicode font to the imported text.
If you have a PC Word Doc (Unicode), appropriate hFonts, non-Unicode applications (Quark v.6, 6.5) on Mac OS/X, then the author should resave the text from PC Word (latest version) as Mac encoded text - e.g. MacCyrillic. The new text file should then be imported into Quark (do not 'Cut & Paste' as the Mac OS/X clipboard is Non-Unicode) and the appropriate ‘hFont’ applied to the text.
