Daktronics Venus 1500 Ver 2.x - Manual (Page 67)

Appendix C: Using the Venus 1500 Controller
to Display Non-English Fonts
The Venus 1500 Controller is capable of displaying various non-English fonts using graphic frames
(not text frames) in the Venus 1500 Message Studio.
C.1 Compatible Languages
During testing
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, Daktronics found that some languages worked very well with the Venus 1500
software, while others did not. The information provided below indicates which languages are
compatible with the Venus 1500 software, which languages may be used but are not supported by
Daktronics technical staff, and which languages are not supported.
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The following languages work in the Venus 1500 graphic frames:
Arabic Dutch French
German Hebrew Indonesian
Italian Malay Portuguese
Spanish Thai
The following languages require installing third party fonts from the Internet. It is possible to use them
in the Venus 1500 Controller software, but they are not supported by Daktronics technical staff:
Greek
Hindi
Russian
Tamil
The following languages do not work in the Venus 1500 Controller software, and are not supported by
Daktronics technical staff:
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Vietnamese
C.2 Initial Settings
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Note: You may need to use the Windows
â
2000 or NT CD-ROM while specifying the initial
settings.
1. Click on the Windows desktop.
2. Choose Settings and then Control Panel.
1
Languages were tested using the English version of Windows 2000. Windows NT should work also.
2
Daktronics, Inc. does not support operating systems for non-English languages.
3
Some characters may also require a language-specific keyboard to be accessible.
Appendix C: Using the Venus 1500 Controller C-1
To Display Non-English Fonts