Update on the font problem:

The translators used a special Vietnamese font and told us to purchase that font to make the translation come out correct on our computer (don't you just love those agencies that tell you it is never their problem ?). In the end, I found free VNI fonts that resemble the Arial and Times fonts enough. Check out www.vnisoft.com - VNI-Helve looks enough like Arial and there is a VNI-Times as well.

I had to then 'manually' change the fonts in the paragrah formats to pick up the new font (another thing the translation agency should have done in their FM files before sending them back to me, so that the missing fonts message signals there is something still to be done before sending the stuff out to the customers), which is easy enough by a global search/replace in the MIF files. I also found out that the translation agency had managed to change the paths to all the images (i.e. not changed the paths back to what they were before), so I had to also change all references in the MIFs.

In the end the document really looked Vietnamese, so the customer will be happy when receiving the finished product, and a little less happy when receiving the invoice for the extra work that was involved.

Wouldn't we all be much better off (but maybe jobless) if there had not been a tower of Bable long ago... ?

Jang

Yes, I remember working in 4 KBytes of RAM for my first programs - that was all the memory you could rely on, as it was built into the parallel RISC processor I happened to start my computer career with. In our little startup techie company, building small programs in assembly language turned out to be my favourite challenge: I managed to build a fully functional program that was no more than 5 bytes long (clearing the memory of the processor). Yes, bytes, not MB, not KB, but bytes. Those were the (challenging) days. Now we are facing different challenges. The translation agency challenge is not one of my favourites, though.

Jang