How to use Japanese/Chinese fonts?

[Pupik]

Well, I have MS Mincho and other font packs that allow me to display Japanese and Chinese typefaces on my computer.

I can recall the characters in MS Word or Excel, but I can't get htem to appear in Photoshop or Fireworks.

I can't get these fonts to display more than the first 255 characters of the character map. (Of course, all the other glyphs are well after 255, they total ~8000.)

Anyone have a much-appreciated solution?

 

[Shannon]

That happens with me when I install new fonts. If the font name doesn't have a capital letter, it will be located at the bottom of your Photoshop font list. I finally discovered my large9 font down there. If that doesn't work, try installing the font by opening up the Font directory (C:\WINDOWS\Fonts). Click File > Install New Font. Navigate to the Fonts directory, and select the font that you are trying to get working. Click OK. If that doesn't work, I find opening up Microsoft Word and using the font, then restarting Photoshop makes it appear for some unknown reason.

 

[Pupik]

Bad fonts ruin your day. Photoshop also goes buggy over crappy fonts, and refuses to load it, and crashes. One such font I downloaded and installed was called "Brass Monkey"...so avoid installing it. That said, I test out all fonts (Word, Fireworks, Photoshop) before making them available in GTPlanet.

I have found a solution for my problem (I've been searching for ages, and only just now found the solution).

 

[Shannon]

Post up for all to see...

 

[Pupik]

Just as Eddy said; type the font in Word (or another word-processing program), and copy and paste the text into Photoshop.

You have to use Insert > Symbol and select the CJK font, then search for the glyph, and just cut and paste into the text window.

I should have known it was that easy.

 

[Shannon]

So, why do you want Japanese/Chin fonts anyway - for the little pictures or what?

 

[Pupik]

I know a little bit of Japanese, it's nice know you can actually use the fonts for something useful. Besides, I'm sure there's someone's who's been dying to but a giant "dragon" character on their PhotoChopped Honda.

I used to have to take screen shots of the characters in Word, which doesn't work right if they're below 24 pixels or so, and import and play around with them to remove the anti-ailiasing if I didn't want white ghosting around it.

Remember: you have to have fonts that are capable of producing these characters: I believe the MS Office suite has them buried in the CD-Rom since '97, that's how I have them.

 

[Pupik]

Sorry for the delay, oddly, Photoshop and Fireworks wouldn't work with each other (it always had before).

Here's what I whipped up in a few minutes.