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1. Re: Japanese typesetting in CS4?
Joel Cherney Nov 16, 2009 2:55 PM (in response to JWH-NIRC)I assume you already know about the non-Adobe templates that, for the last version or two, have exposed some minimal CJK formatting tools.
I feel like "paging Rorohiko to this thread" (or maybe Harbs) might get us decent (C)J(K) formatting tools faster than any pleading w/Adobe.
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2. Re: Japanese typesetting in CS4?
Harbs. Nov 16, 2009 3:09 PM (in response to Joel Cherney)I feel like "paging Rorohiko to this thread" (or maybe Harbs) might
get us decent (C)J(K) formatting tools faster than any pleading w/
Adobe.
I had considered adding some CJK tools to World Tools, but various
factors including my lack of CJK knowledge caused me to drop the idea
before it got started.
I might revisit the idea though. Joel, You can feel free to drop me a
line...
Harbs
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3. Re: Japanese typesetting in CS4?
David W. Goodrich Nov 16, 2009 6:39 PM (in response to JWH-NIRC)Last time I looked into this, the problem wasn't simply a matter of updating software: different-language versions of InDesign cannot coexist on the same hardware, plus East Asian versions required an East Asian version of the operating system, Windows or Mac, and not just CJK input systems.
That said, templates from TransPacificDigital (formerly known as TechArt) allow one to use some features of East Asian versions of InDesign in western-language versions.
Good luck!
David
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4. Re: Japanese typesetting in CS4?
JWH-NIRC Nov 17, 2009 1:48 AM (in response to David W. Goodrich)Unfortunately, the few functions that are available in workarounds do not meet the needs of serious typesetting, even from simple projects. And since, as you note, two versions of the same program cannot co-exist in the same OS, dual-boot is the only way... and that means dual-payment as well.
I would hope Adobe would recognize the problem and find some way to combine the two.
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5. Re: Japanese typesetting in CS4?
David W. Goodrich Nov 17, 2009 12:38 PM (in response to JWH-NIRC)I hope so, too. Perhaps the fact that Quark 8 now claims some of this functionality will encourage Adobe to improve: "Users of any — yes any — edition of QuarkXPress 8 can open, edit, style, and output East Asian documents and maintain attributes without worries."
David



