The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => The Computer Room => Topic started by: Pastis on October 08, 2009, 02:49:08 PM
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I'm trying to puzzle something out rubschin:
A customer of mine (A) has a visit this morning from one of his customers (B). He needs some information to appear on some work I'll put together. So, B hands over a memory stick to A's secretary and she puts it a laptop and prints it out; it's in Arabic. She then emails me the document in the hope that I can use it.
All I get is a sequence of:
☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐
☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐
☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐
I figure that's because I don't have the font or at least Word doesn't know which font to display the information in.
The puzzle is how do I get hold of the Arabic text rubschin:
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Normally it asks you if you want to download the appropriate font. rubschin:
Unless you clicked 'never download fonts in future' the last time it asked! point:
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rubschin: I'll check.
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Possibly a daft question but are you sure this is formatted as a word document. I seen similar displays when the program you use treats the formatting code as text.
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I second that. It looks like it is a non Word doc or a very different version.
Try using Notepad and see what results you get.
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I know what it should actually be; it's a general warning statement, i.e. Don't spray this deodorant up yer nose lol:, but it's in Arabic. I suspect the secretary has brought it into a word document because the titling is typical. In which case I guess GM and tel are probably right.
Font substitution on Word tells me the original was Colibri which I think is the latest general purpose font; that would seem to confirm that it's wrong because the original should have been an Arabic font. rubschin:
In days of yore I'd send the English text to an Arabic typesetters and receive it back in a format I could use. ::)
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Just a thought but try and import it into a powerpoint slide. Its designed for different formatting styles so you may be able to cut and paste it into a new word doc from there.
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Will try ... BRB
Well, blimey guvnor! Who's a clever boy then? lol:
[ I've pulled the picture ~ can't be too careful these days whistle: ]
Well done GM happy088. Now I just need to figure out how to get it across to Freehand MX or Illustrator whistle:
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'spect it says something like "Remove top then push up bottom and may Allah be Merciful"
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I'm sure Pastis's Google searches on decoding Arabic text won't have been picked up by anyone at all whistle:
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scared2: scared2:
The middle sentence says: "And for Allah's sake don't use this in the O2 Arena; you'll get 150 years!"
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Could also be a problem between the printer and the computer. Sometimes with non western language they refuse to print it.