Font problems

[fromatoz]

While the PTE forum is mainly concerned with AVI stuff (the DVDs I made work fine - great feature!), I am still struggling with basic things. I use Japanese WinXP, and my problem is that in PTE I cannot get text with German special characters (Umlaute like ä, ö, ü). Though these characters appear correctly in the comment-line, they come up as a, o, u in runtime mode.

When I choose “Arial” or “Arial Unicode” or any other common font, then language / region “Central Europe”, then click ok, then preview the slide, then check language / region again, for some unknown reason “Central Europe” has turned back to “Europe”. I wonder why. Of course, the problem is the same with Japanese characters.

Has anyone a suggestion how to fix this?

Thanks.

[ccmanz]

I don't know how to fix your problem.

But for myself, I always make my text in a graphic editor and place it on

the picture as an object. I save my text as a Gif and use a Transparent

background. Or choose the option in PTE to make the background transparent.

With this option you can use any font you want and you don't have to worry that the

viewer will have it installed.

This doen't fix your problem but it is a way you can make sure that

the text you are wanting to show is showing on the screen of other computers.

cc

[fromatoz]

Thank you, cc.

A lot of additional work, but at least a way to get around the problem.

I would be interested in knowing from other PTE users with English Win OS installed, whether special characters (for example from the French alphabet) appear correctly during runtime mode.

Thanks for your feedback.

Tom

[alrobin]

I would be interested in knowing from other PTE users with English Win OS installed, whether special characters (for example from the French alphabet) appear correctly during runtime mode.

Hi, Tom,

Yes, these special ASCII characters (e.g. è, ç, é, etc.) do display properly in compiled ".exe" mode. They are built into the main-stream fonts (Arial, Times New Roman, etc), so there is no problem.

[fromatoz]

Al -

thank you for checking. Maybe, in my case, PTE does not work properly because of an incompatibility with the system of double-byte fonts Chinese / Japanese characters make use of?

Sometimes computers seem to suffer the same kind of cross cultural communication problems as human beings...