Formatting asian characters, Display asian type options, Set asian opentype font attributes – Adobe Illustrator CS3 User Manual
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Formatting Asian characters
Display Asian type options
By default, Illustrator hides Asian type options in the Character panel, Paragraph panel, OpenType panel, and Type
menu.
1
Choose Edit > Preferences > Type (Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > Type (Mac OS).
2
Select Show Asian Options, and click
OK.
You can also control how font names are displayed (in English or in the native language) by selecting or deselecting
Show Font Names in English.
Note: Your operating system must support the languages in which you wish to work. Consult your system software
manufacturer for more information.
See also
Set Asian OpenType font attributes
Asian OpenType fonts may include a number of features that aren’t available in current PostScript and TrueType
fonts. In addition, Asian OpenType fonts provide alternate glyphs for many characters.
1
Select the characters or type objects to which you want to apply the setting. If you don’t select any text, the setting
applies to new text you create.
2
Make sure that an OpenType font is selected.
Look in the Type > Font menu; OpenType fonts display the
icon.
3
In the OpenType panel, set any of the following options:
Proportional Metrics
Kerning is according to the proportional metrics of the font.
H or V Style
Switches hiragana fonts, which have different glyphs for horizontal and vertical such as contracted
sounds, double consonants, and phonetic indexes.
Roman Italics
Changes half-width alphanumerics to italics.
See also
“About character sets and alternate glyphs” on page 316
“OpenType panel overview” on page 317
Replace Asian characters with a different glyph form
1
Select the characters you want to replace.
2
Choose an option from the Glyphs panel menu. If you don’t see the following options, select Show Asian Options
in the Type preferences. If an option is dimmed, the glyph form is not available for the current font:
Traditional Forms
Replaces the selected characters with traditional forms.