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Valerie Sutton Date: Mon Dec 31, 2001 1:42 am Subject: Re: ARABIA: New Web Posting! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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>Angus wrote: The main thing that you need to do is to install a PostScript >printer driver on your computer and tell it to "Print to File." EMBEDDING ARABIC FONTS In a POSTSCRIPT FILE Thank you, Angus, for suggesting the Postscript File to Mohammed. There is something I must warn you all about... When the Ghost program, or Acrobat, create the PDF file from the Postscript File, the Ghost Program or Acrobat has to be a special version that will embed the Arabic font from right to left... I tried myself to do that on my computer, but Acrobat refused to embed the font, because it said it was "unrecognizable"...and now we know that my computer was reversing the Arabic script anyway - so you can see that there are issues, when creating the PS file in Arabic So Mohamed, if you send us a PS file, without the font embedded, we are doomed...The PDF will replace the font with Helvetica on our American computers! But if you go ahead and create the PDF file for us, on your Arabic typing computer, then that may be different. If you do that, you must be sure to embed the Arabic font in the PDF file, which will make the PDF larger, but it is the ONLY way we will see it in Arabic... I understand there is a special version of Acrobat for Arabic that saves fonts from right to left. I do not know if there is one for Ghost or not... Plus, if you send me graphics files, which is what I want, there are ways now to reduce those files way down to small sizes in Acrobat so we could create maybe 5 PDF files that can be accessed in sequence, and there will be no font issues... Those are my thoughts...but I know, Angus, you know so much! I always learn from you...So if you understand the Arabic font issues better than I - that is great! Please inform us ;-) -- Val ;-) ___________________________ Valerie Sutton ....visit the... SignWritingSite https://www.SignWriting.org Read & Write Sign Languages SignBankSite https://www.SignBank.org Sign Language Dictionaries DanceWritingSite https://www.DanceWriting.org Read & Write Dance MovementWritingSite https://www.MovementWriting.org Read & Write Movement & Gesture Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA tel: 858-456-0098....fax: 858-456-0020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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