Re: Using Frame to layout Chinese text

["Steve Schwedland" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Geoff,

You will need to have a Chinese version of Windows to render the Chinese
characters in FrameMaker.  If you are running Win2K then you can simply set the
default system language to Chinese and then reboot your machine.  In either case
you will need have a Chinese enabled system to work in Chinese in FrameMaker.
Furthermore, you will need the exact Chinese system, not just any double byte
system.  Meaning you cannot use a Simplified Chinese version of Windows 95 to
work in Traditional Chinese, Korean or Japanese.  I don't remember if the Word
import filters work very well with Chinese, but I would be wary of that.  I
always just used text files to get the text into FrameMaker and then published
it the way I wanted.  If you are actually translating an English FrameMaker
document in Chinese then I would recommend looking at the Trados S-Tagger
(www.trados.com) program to extract your original text and then put the
translated text back into FrameMaker.

If you have any more specific questions please feel free to e-mail me directly.

Steve


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoffrey Marnell" <gmarnell@ozemail.com.au>
To: <framers@omsys.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 5:17 PM
Subject: Using Frame to layout Chinese text


> Framers,
>
> I believe that Frame 5.5 has a double-byte feature that enables users to
> open Chinese, Japanese and Korean documents. Presumably you would need the
> appropriate fonts installed on your system, but do you also need, say, a
> Chinese version of Windows as the OS to read and edit Chinese documents? Or
> is the common-or-garden version adequate. [I need to import Word documents,
> written entirely in Chinese, into Frame, update a few graphics, and lay the
> document out for printing.]
>
> Cheers
>
> Geoff
>
>
>
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