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But you can't copy/paste
Authored by: vladimus on Sep 16, '03 03:40:21PM

Sorry, I should've been more clear on this. Illustrator will use double-byte (non Roman) fonts, but you can't simply copy and paste out of another program like Word or TextEdit, and PDFs won't import correctly, either.

This hint outlines the fonts so you can get the text in without figuring out how to retype it.



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But you can't copy/paste
Authored by: maxgraphic on Sep 16, '03 04:49:34PM

I have no trouble copying Japanese text from TextEdit and pasting it into Illustrator 10. You do have to make sure you've selected a Japanese font, of course.

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But you can't copy/paste
Authored by: vladimus on Sep 16, '03 05:03:39PM

Good to know. Changing the font in Illustrator and then pasting does work.

However, if you don't know which fonts to use, copying and pasting won't work. This is especially true in mixed language documents.



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But you can't copy/paste
Authored by: arekkusu on Sep 16, '03 10:41:13PM

Illustrator is designed to work with CJK text, and has been for many years.

However, the text engine is still not unicode-savvy, so you can run into problems with multilingual documents. Part of that depends on the app you are copying from-- if it includes a SimpleText 'styl' resource on the pasteboard then multiple fonts/encodings ought to paste correctly. Otherwise, the font info will be lost.



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But you can't copy/paste
Authored by: clarkcb on Sep 17, '03 07:00:29PM

In my experience with Illustrator since 8, when you paste Asian text from Word into Illustrator the text often appears as nonsensical characters unless Illustrator already "knows" that you are inputting in an Asian language. I get around this by providing a hint:

  1. switch to the IME for the desired language
  2. type a single Asian character into the desired paste location
  3. paste the copied text from Word after this character
  4. delete the character from step 2

The text should paste in correctly after the hint character has been entered. It's kind of kludgy, and from another hint I see that setting the font ahead of time may also do the trick, but I haven't tried that yet and this approach has always worked for me.



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