Installed font not available in word

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Paseband

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Hi,

Fonts such as "Devanagari" and "Devanagari-QWERTY" which are preinstalled on mac (which can be typed easily in edit text application of mac) do not appear in the list of fonts in word or in any MS Office 2008 applications. After selecting Devanagari from menu of mac, it types only boxes with question mark inside.
In help search of MS Word, it types in Devanagari characters.
What must be the problem?
Please help,

Paseband
 
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Peter Donelly

Hi Paseban

This problem has been frustrating me too. If I install a devanagari font such as Sanskrit 2003 in Word for Mac, it will recognise it, but not the ligatures. Hence ???? becomes ????? ! The strange thing is that Powerpoint for Word writes perfect devanagari and recognises all the complex ligatures (it says it is using Calibri Theme Headings as the font, however I'm pretty sure it's using Devanagari MT). I have tried talking to Apple and Microsoft about it, but no luck. If you find a solution please let me know as I will you.

Cheers

Peter



Paseban wrote:

Installed font not available in word
03-Feb-10

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi, <br><br>Fonts such as &quot;Devanagari&quot; and &quot;Devanagari-QWERTY&quot; which are preinstalled on mac (which can be typed easily in edit text application of mac) do not appear in the list of fonts in word or in any MS Office 2008 applications. After selecting Devanagari from menu of mac, it types only boxes with question mark inside. <br>
In help search of MS Word, it types in Devanagari characters. <br>
What must be the problem? <br>
Please help, <br><br>Paseband

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Installed font not available in word
Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi, <br><br>Fonts such as &quot;Devanagari&quot; and &quot;Devanagari-QWERTY&quot; which are preinstalled on mac (which can be typed easily in edit text application of mac) do not appear in the list of fonts in word or in any MS Office 2008 applications. After selecting Devanagari from menu of mac, it types only boxes with question mark inside. <br>
In help search of MS Word, it types in Devanagari characters. <br>
What must be the problem? <br>
Please help, <br><br>Paseband


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Peter Donelly

Hi Paseband

I actually meant that Powerpoint for Mac writes perfect devanagari.

Cheers

Peter




Peter Donelly wrote:

Installed font not available in word
10-Apr-10

Hi Paseban

This problem has been frustrating me too. If I install a devanagari font such as Sanskrit 2003 in Word for Mac, it will recognise it, but not the ligatures. Hence ???? becomes ????? ! The strange thing is that Powerpoint for Word writes perfect devanagari and recognises all the complex ligatures (it says it is using Calibri Theme Headings as the font, however I'm pretty sure it's using Devanagari MT). I have tried talking to Apple and Microsoft about it, but no luck. If you find a solution please let me know as I will you.

Cheers

Peter

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John McGhie

Hi Peter:

There is a clue there: If PowerPoint "says" it is using Calibri, then it IS
using Calibri :) Mind you, you need to select just "one" character to be
sure, since in Unicode the system will go looking for a glyph if it can't
find the one it wants in the font in use.

Calibri is an OpenType TrueType font that does contain ligatures.

If the font you are using doesn't contain ligatures, or if it's not coded in
TrueType format, Word can't use the ligatures. OpenType PostScript is a
legitimate encoding scheme, but Word can't use it properly.

Cheers


Hi Paseban

This problem has been frustrating me too. If I install a devanagari font such
as Sanskrit 2003 in Word for Mac, it will recognise it, but not the ligatures.
Hence ???? becomes ????? ! The strange thing is that Powerpoint for Word
writes perfect devanagari and recognises all the complex ligatures (it says it
is using Calibri Theme Headings as the font, however I'm pretty sure it's
using Devanagari MT). I have tried talking to Apple and Microsoft about it,
but no luck. If you find a solution please let me know as I will you.

Cheers

Peter



Paseban wrote:

Installed font not available in word
03-Feb-10

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi, <br><br>Fonts such as &quot;Devanagari&quot; and
&quot;Devanagari-QWERTY&quot; which are preinstalled on mac (which can be
typed easily in edit text application of mac) do not appear in the list of
fonts in word or in any MS Office 2008 applications. After selecting
Devanagari from menu of mac, it types only boxes with question mark inside.
<br>
In help search of MS Word, it types in Devanagari characters. <br>
What must be the problem? <br>
Please help, <br><br>Paseband

Previous Posts In This Thread:

Installed font not available in word
Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi, <br><br>Fonts such as &quot;Devanagari&quot; and
&quot;Devanagari-QWERTY&quot; which are preinstalled on mac (which can be
typed easily in edit text application of mac) do not appear in the list of
fonts in word or in any MS Office 2008 applications. After selecting
Devanagari from menu of mac, it types only boxes with question mark inside.
<br>
In help search of MS Word, it types in Devanagari characters. <br>
What must be the problem? <br>
Please help, <br><br>Paseband


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Peter Donelly

Hi John

Many thanks for the advice. However, Word for Mac just doesn't seem to be able to handle entering devanagari with the QWERTY devanagari keyboard enabled on a Mac. Just a series of small boxes with question marks in them appear even when I use Calibri. Word for Mac will not allow me to use Devanagari MT (TTF) which is supplied in the Mac Font Book. If I load a font such as Sanskrit 2003(TTF) which was designed for Windows, the characters will appear in Word for Mac, but not the ligatures. I just downloaded iWorks and its Pages app recognised devanagari straight off - ligatures and all. It's a pity I cannot get Word for Mac to do the same as I have been using Word for such a long time and would like to continue. Any suggestions?

Your help is much appreciated.

Regards

Peter



John McGhie wrote:

Hi Peter:There is a clue there: If PowerPoint "says" it is using Calibri,
11-Apr-10

Hi Peter

There is a clue there: If PowerPoint "says" it is using Calibri, then it I
using Calibri :) Mind you, you need to select just "one" character to b
sure, since in Unicode the system will go looking for a glyph if it canno
find the one it wants in the font in use

Calibri is an OpenType TrueType font that does contain ligatures

If the font you are using does not contain ligatures, or if it is not coded i
TrueType format, Word cannot use the ligatures. OpenType PostScript is
legitimate encoding scheme, but Word cannot use it properly

Cheer

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"<Peter Donelly>" <> wrote

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John McGhie

Hi Peter:

My ignorance of Devengari knows no bounds.

It appears to be a right-to-left font. The Text Engine in Word 2008 can't
handle RTL: end of story, no fix possible.

PowerPoint has a different rendering engine which can handle the font.

I don't know what else to tell you...

Sorry.


Hi John

Many thanks for the advice. However, Word for Mac just doesn't seem to be
able to handle entering devanagari with the QWERTY devanagari keyboard enabled
on a Mac. Just a series of small boxes with question marks in them appear
even when I use Calibri. Word for Mac will not allow me to use Devanagari MT
(TTF) which is supplied in the Mac Font Book. If I load a font such as
Sanskrit 2003(TTF) which was designed for Windows, the characters will appear
in Word for Mac, but not the ligatures. I just downloaded iWorks and its
Pages app recognised devanagari straight off - ligatures and all. It's a pity
I cannot get Word for Mac to do the same as I have been using Word for such a
long time and would like to continue. Any suggestions?

Your help is much appreciated.

Regards

Peter



John McGhie wrote:

Hi Peter:There is a clue there: If PowerPoint "says" it is using Calibri,
11-Apr-10

Hi Peter:

There is a clue there: If PowerPoint "says" it is using Calibri, then it IS
using Calibri :) Mind you, you need to select just "one" character to be
sure, since in Unicode the system will go looking for a glyph if it cannot
find the one it wants in the font in use.

Calibri is an OpenType TrueType font that does contain ligatures.

If the font you are using does not contain ligatures, or if it is not coded in
TrueType format, Word cannot use the ligatures. OpenType PostScript is a
legitimate encoding scheme, but Word cannot use it properly.

Cheers


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Paseband

Hi Peter:
>
> My ignorance of Devengari knows no bounds.
>
> It appears to be a right-to-left font. The Text Engine in Word 2008 can't
> handle RTL: end of story, no fix possible.
>
> PowerPoint has a different rendering engine which can handle the font.
>
> I don't know what else to tell you...
>
> Sorry.
>
>
> On 12/04/10 7:54 PM, in article (e-mail address removed),
> &quot;&quot; wrote:
>
> > Hi John
> >
> > Many thanks for the advice. However, Word for Mac just doesn't seem to be
> > able to handle entering devanagari with the QWERTY devanagari keyboard enabled
> > on a Mac. Just a series of small boxes with question marks in them appear
> > even when I use Calibri. Word for Mac will not allow me to use Devanagari MT
> > (TTF) which is supplied in the Mac Font Book. If I load a font such as
> > Sanskrit 2003(TTF) which was designed for Windows, the characters will appear
> > in Word for Mac, but not the ligatures. I just downloaded iWorks and its
> > Pages app recognised devanagari straight off - ligatures and all. It's a pity
> > I cannot get Word for Mac to do the same as I have been using Word for such a
> > long time and would like to continue. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Your help is much appreciated.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> > John McGhie wrote:
> >
> > Hi Peter:There is a clue there: If PowerPoint &quot;says&quot; it is using Calibri,
> > 11-Apr-10
> >
> > Hi Peter:
> >
> > There is a clue there: If PowerPoint &quot;says&quot; it is using Calibri, then it IS
> > using Calibri :) Mind you, you need to select just &quot;one&quot; character to be
> > sure, since in Unicode the system will go looking for a glyph if it cannot
> > find the one it wants in the font in use.
> >
> > Calibri is an OpenType TrueType font that does contain ligatures.
> >
> > If the font you are using does not contain ligatures, or if it is not coded in
> > TrueType format, Word cannot use the ligatures. OpenType PostScript is a
> > legitimate encoding scheme, but Word cannot use it properly.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> > On 11/04/10 10:23 AM, in article (e-mail address removed),
> > &quot;&quot; wrote:
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > The email below is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum
> > matters unless I ask you to; or unless you intend to pay!
> >
> > John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer,
> > McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
> > Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410 | mailto:[email protected]
> >
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>
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Hi John &amp; Peter,

Thanks for considering my problem.
Devanagari is left to right script only and not right to left.
On Windows os Unicode platform Devanagari is very much available in Word 2007 or in its earlier versions. It is available in all applications of MS Office.

Cheers,

Paseband
 
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John McGhie

Hi Paseband:

Yeah, sorry, it would appear that Indic script simply does not work on Word
2008, and I cannot find any way to make it work. It would appear that it's
not going to be available in Word 2011 either.

You can look around here:
http://bhashaindia.com/Pages/home.aspx

But I did not find anything there that would enable you to use Indic scripts
in Word 2008.

These guys couldn't get it to work either:
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2010/02/fonts-that-expand-word-2008-language.htm
l

Sorry


Hi John & Peter,

Thanks for considering my problem.
Devanagari is left to right script only and not right to left.
On Windows os Unicode platform Devanagari is very much available in Word 2007
or in its earlier versions. It is available in all applications of MS Office.

Cheers,

Paseband
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