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FrameMaker Chinese display problems
Thread poster: Marti Adler
Marti Adler
Marti Adler  Identity Verified
Israel
Local time: 19:32
English
Sep 8, 2009

Hallo,
I'm Using FrameMaker 8 to localize a text into Chinese. After translating a mif file in DejaVu (correct chinese display) I open the mif file in FrameMaker to see that all chinese became question marks. I used both export encoding in Dejavu - Unicode and Chinese PRC, but bot are unreadable.
My OC is Windows XP with Chinese in the Language settings.
I appreciate any help
Thanks
Marti
 
Selcuk Akyuz
Selcuk Akyuz  Identity Verified
Türkiye
Local time: 19:32
English to Turkish
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Any error messages? Sep 8, 2009

Did you receive any error messages when opening the file with FrameMaker, e.g. *** font is not available.
 
Marti Adler
Marti Adler  Identity Verified
Israel
Local time: 19:32
English
TOPIC STARTER
No error messages at all Sep 8, 2009

I just open the file the many empty spaces or question marks (depends on the encoding)
 
RieM
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United States
Local time: 12:32
English to Japanese
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Font mapping Sep 8, 2009

Hi

There are various ways to fix it, and the easiest one is MIF font mapping.

Withiin DejaVu, Go to Project > Properties and click the MIF Font Mapping tab (rightmost). You will see a list of fonts used in the current project (mif files). You can go one by one and map to a chinese font, or click "Global replacement" under the list for simpler management.

HTH

Rie
 
CTCTranslate
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Hong Kong
Local time: 00:32
Member (2006)
English to Chinese
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FrameMaker 8 Sep 9, 2009

I has expienced this kind of problems too. My solutions:

1. Save FrameMaker 8 file to FrameMaker 7.0 mif, after translation and use FrameMaker 7.0 to change all fonts to Chinese fonts, thus, then use FrameMaker 8 to perform DTP work.
 


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