Chinese & Japanese fonts in Photoshop 7.0

Need help

[Juleeeah]

I have Chinese text in a Word doc, and when I paste it as text into a Photoshop layer, it doesn't appear. The layer title shows the text properly, and I can select the text itself, but the layer itself looks blank.

I've searched for information about installing fonts, but am not sure if that's the right path to follow. (Besides, if it's shows fine in Word does that mean I already have the font I need?)

Next I'll have to tackle the same issue for Japanese text...

Can anyone help me out so I don't spend several hours on a few characters of text? I'm just trying to make a gateway page for localized content, so Japanese readers click the Japanese icon/text, and Chinese readers click the Chinese version.

Thanks in advance!

[limbo]

Hi Juleeah

Welcome to Webmaster world [webmasterworld.com]

I am no expert here but you could check you have the font installed by selecting it in word to find out the name of the font. Then access you font folder via your c drive (you using windows?) to see if it is available and is not imbedded in word somehow. If it is not there you can download many truetype fonts from sites on the web - many are free.

Ta

Limbo

[Juleeeah]

Thanks for your response. It must be embedded because when I highlight the Chinese text in Word, it appears as Verdana (or whatever other font I choose).

I'll check fonts on the web.
Thanks again!

[PatrickDeese]

you probably have it in unicode - i got burned with a Japanese translation that way once - it only looks like Japanese.

I got around it in part by making the phrases I wanted to look (more or less) like I wanted in word (blech) and then I screenshotted them and fiddled with them a bit more in Photoshop. It's a kludge, but it worked.