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RE: Traditional and Simplified Chinese HELP

Title: RE: Traditional and Simplified Chinese HELP

Erica,

Yes, you can do this.  I also have done it successfully with FM5.5.6 for 2 years and now FM6.0, with Japanese, Korean, TC and SC, all on the same machine.  Only one copy of FM on the machine and it does not matter where you put it.  My copy is on the same drive as English NT4.  Install NT4 in the various languages you want on different partitions/drives, run the one you want, and Frame will open the files and display the fonts just fine.  Embed the fonts and one (English) copy of Distiller works fine too, creates the PDFs in all the languages with no problems.  Am able to create help files in the various languages too, using Robohelp for the English, and Word and MS Help workshop for the other languages.

The trick here is that only the GUI in FM and Acrobat is in English.  The underlying software can accept any latin-based character language and the 4 Asian languages.  I don't think it accepts slavic or middle-eastern languages such as Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, etc. but I haven't tried them so I don't know.

Dick Gaskill
Tech Pubs Manager
Blue Pumpkin Software
Sunnyvale, CA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gagne, Bernard (Bolton) [mailto:bgagne@husky.ca]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 3:43 PM
To: 'Erica Chapin'; Alt framers (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Traditional and Simplified Chinese HELP


We've been doing just that successfully with Simplified Chinese, Korean, and
Japanese for the past 2 years with Frame 5.5.6 and NT 4. I can't think of a
reason why it wouldn't work with 6.0.(And we have all 3 Asian OSs loaded on
the same box, which we have to reboot to access the other languages. Two
machines--luxury!)
Berny Gagne
Sr. Technical Writer
Husky Injection Molding Systems
Bolton, Ontario, Canada

-----Original Message-----
From: Erica Chapin [mailto:erica.chapin@starfish.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 3:21 PM
To: framers@omsys.com
Subject: Traditional and Simplified Chinese HELP


Can anyone tell me - quickly - if I have a Traditional Chinese (and another
Simplified Chinese) machine and install FM6 (the English version) on it can
I edit fm files that are in Chinese then distill and make a new pdf?  The
docs were outsourced originally and now are being managed in-house.

Thanks for a quick answer!

Erica Chapin
International Development
Starfish Software


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