Create Chinese document in InDesign

MacinMA · MacinMA #1 (**permalink**)

08-11-2009, 08:22 AM

The company I work for often translates our English brochures into Spanish and Russian. It has been very easy, we just receive a Russian or Spanish word document from a translator which I then paste into Indesign and as long as I use Arial or Times as the font, all the characters appear in the language as they should.

My question is would this be any different for Chinese? I have some fonts that are Chinese looking but they appear in English if I try to use them. Any thoughts?

If I get a document in Chinese, paste it into InDesign will it retain those special characters?

Any thoughts on how to correctly make a document into Chinese is what I need to know. Thanks

white book · white book #2 (**permalink**)

08-12-2009, 09:05 PM

I can't help too much, but I know that many, many Chinese characters are correctly proportional in the font of "SimSum". I don't know if there's a space in between Sim and Sum or not, but it's what most of the characters are on a pc.

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Right click to create a new document in folder.	Gottria	Switcher Hangout	5	04-21-2009 04:03 PM
Right click in folder to create new document?	Gottria	OS X - Operating System	2	01-21-2009 04:27 AM
Indesign CS– links not updating for files on server	Morgan19	OS X - Apps and Games	2	05-23-2008 03:56 PM
Quark7 VS Indesign (want «old timer» Graphic opinion)	bellastrada	OS X - Apps and Games	3	10-02-2006 07:01 AM
Convert Indesign document into Quark 6.X	bellastrada	Images, Graphic Design, and Digital Photography	2	12-09-2005 01:59 PM

Create Chinese document in InDesign

Internet Services

Web Development

Digital Marketing

Consumer Tech

MacinMA #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 16, 2007 Posts: 6	08-11-2009, 08:22 AM The company I work for often translates our English brochures into Spanish and Russian. It has been very easy, we just receive a Russian or Spanish word document from a translator which I then paste into Indesign and as long as I use Arial or Times as the font, all the characters appear in the language as they should. My question is would this be any different for Chinese? I have some fonts that are Chinese looking but they appear in English if I try to use them. Any thoughts? If I get a document in Chinese, paste it into InDesign will it retain those special characters? Any thoughts on how to correctly make a document into Chinese is what I need to know. Thanks
	QUOTE Thanks

white book #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Aug 07, 2009 Posts: 10 Mac Specs: the regular white macbook from '09	08-12-2009, 09:05 PM I can't help too much, but I know that many, many Chinese characters are correctly proportional in the font of "SimSum". I don't know if there's a space in between Sim and Sum or not, but it's what most of the characters are on a pc.
	QUOTE Thanks

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)