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> I'm having some english framemaker 6 files translated into
> german but our
> translators don't have our font on their PC (Rotis) - and
> they don't want to
> buy them (and we don't want to buy them for them either as
> they're circa
> $150!). If they send me translated files in, say, font=Ariel
> and I impose
> Rotis on the doc when I get it back, does anyone know if
> umlauts and the
> like in Ariel will be substituted with Rotis umlauts and other german
> characters?
What I´d recommend as a German FM user: Don´t buy the font and
make sure that the translators activate "Remember missing font
names" in FrameMaker in "File | Settings" (in German:
Voreinstellungen).
Thus when the translator translates your text he/she uses any
font they like. When you get the FM files back it automatically
uses Rotis again.
This procedure worked for me and I don´t see any reason why
it shouldn´t work for you as well.
There shouldn´t be any problems with font encoding as German
umlauts are all in the regular ANSI code. The same with
French, Spanish etc. Only when you want to translate into East
European or Asian languages you have to use another font with
another font encoding than ANSI.
If you are still unsure: buy the font as others have recommended.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Winfried
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