[bubs]

Hi everyone,

[note: using OS10.3, QuakXPress 6.1, Adobe Creative Suite CS]

I have to design a brochure in both Chinese (traditional + Simplified) and Japanese for a client.

I've been given the brochure's copy in Word and the design templates in QuarkXPress. However, I can't import the copy into Quark with out getting garbled text. Plus I can only view the Japanese word files and not the Chinese word files when I open them in Word.

Is there something I need to purchase like an Asian Language Quark? Or Quark Passport and the right set of fonts? Or something I need to download and install?

I just need to import the text into Quark and go... I see it's not that easy and I could really use a helping hand.

Thanks!

[iT4c0]

I've had hard time importing Chinese and Japanese into inDesign 2.0 before. I ended up putting everything in illustrator and place them in inDesign. I am not sure if it works with inDesign CS now. Maybe you should just try to use illustrator + indesign method. inDesign will work with native AI file so you do not need to save as tiff.

[bubs]

Yeah, it seems that after I installed Asian fonts from my OSX startup disk (disk 3), I could use the Asian characters in Illustrator... still QuarkXpress is giving me a headache. If worse comes to worse, I'll just re-create the Quark template in Illustrator and go from there. Still it's a pain in the ass.

[Nathan Adams]

InDesign CS has no problems with asian fonts
But for Quark - you need Quark XPress Passport, which is hideously expensive (much more so than standard Quark XPress).
You're far better off doing it in InDesign.

[bubs]

leave it up to Quark to make things difficult! Yeah, InDesign worked fine. Thanks

[himself]

If your word files use opentype fonts for the asian characters, you'll be forever stuck in quark, since it doesn't support opentype. InDesign, however, supports opentype.