[MacinMA]

The company I work for often translates our English brochures into Spanish and Russian. It has been very easy, we just receive a Russian or Spanish word document from a translator which I then paste into Indesign and as long as I use Arial or Times as the font, all the characters appear in the language as they should.

My question is would this be any different for Chinese? I have some fonts that are Chinese looking but they appear in English if I try to use them. Any thoughts?

If I get a document in Chinese, paste it into InDesign will it retain those special characters?

Any thoughts on how to correctly make a document into Chinese is what I need to know. Thanks

[Andy8]

As long as your system has the same or similar fonts as the text you are receiving to paste in then it should work out fine.

The problems come when you export into say a PDF and someone reading the PDF brochure does not have the same fonts you used.

If you are exporting to offset printing, then just make sure you printer has the same fonts.

[MacinMA]

Thanks very much, it does indeed work fine using both the original SimSun.ttf font, as well as any of the Opentype Adobe Chinese fonts that were included in CS4.