Chinese in Fireworks

how to?

[txbakers]

I want to be able to make buttons in Fireworks that use Chinese characters.

I was able to translate some button text, but when I cut and paste into Fireworks it doesn't show. I also downloaded and installed a Chinese Font.

I'm on a basic Windows 2000 PC, but I did install Chinese language packs for the browser, so I can see Chinese Characters on the web.

Anything I need to do or install would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[bill]

Do you have the Chinese input editors? If you can input the text directly instead of copying and pasting I've had that work with Chinese and Japanese on some packages.

[txbakers]

Thanks bill, no I don't have any Chinese input editors. Where can I find something like that? I'd prefer just to copy/paste from the translation site, but Fireworks doesn't like the Characters.

[bill]

With Win2K you need the Global IME, which can be found here: Microsoft Global Input Method Editors [microsoft.com]
That should add the necessary handlers for you. Fonts alone won't be enough.

[txbakers]

Thanks. turns out that Windows 2000 did have the input editors already installed, just had to turn them on.

I can now cut and paste in Chinese into Word, but Fireworks still doesn't recognize the Characters or the fonts.

I might have to put everything into Word, then make a screen shot and crop to make my buttons.

New territory for me!

[bill]

Regardless, turning on those Global IME settings should help you in other areas, if not this software. Some graphics packages just won't let you input double byte characters. I use Adobe PhotoShop or PhotoShop Elements, and they let me input anything. I was going to suggest the screen-shot method if all else failed...but I see you're onto that already. ;)