Font substitution: Arial Unicode for Arial

We use Arial font for headlines, but InDesign consistently (always) changes Arial into Arial Unicode when I place copy from WORD. It leaves Times New Roman alone, and also other forms of Arial, such as Arial Black are OK. Just Arial has the problem. How do I permanently get it to run Arial? Thanks in advance, Cliff Moore

If you have a font manager (I'm guessing you don't), you can just turn fonts on and off. Without one, you have to remove fonts from Windows (Start>Control Panel>Fonts), but make sure you have a copy of the file before removing anything.
However, the fact that it is Arial Greek may mean the problem is something else and not a simple case of two Arials being active at the same time. Do you get a missing font message in ID?

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Almost forgot: we're running InDesign CS3 on Windows XP 2nd Ed, with 2G RAM. Cliff Moore

Yeah, I finally worked my way up to there and saw it, thanks. :)
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Arial Unicode font for Tamil, etc.?

Looking for some style alternatives to the InaiMathi font included in OS X for the Tamil language, I noted at the the Gallery of Unicode Fonts that the Arial Unicode font includes Tamil characters, and remembered that that font is now included with OS X (10.5). I checked with Character Palette and indeed the Tamil characters are there, but they aren't recognized as equivalent to those in InaiMathi. And when I try to change some Tamil words in a document from InaiMathi to Arial Unicode, nothing happens.
I don't understand a lot about Unicode, but I know the Arial Unicode font has been around for a while (it was more or less the original effort to create a single Unicode font including all the major alphabetic scripts), and don't understand why it would contain the Tamil character set but not work for that script. It doesn't seem to work for Tibetan either, though it contains that character set as well. In fact, according to Character Palette, it seems about 90% of Arial Unicode is "character variants" that "won't display correctly". What's it for, then, anyone have any idea?

+I have always thought Windows fonts cannot be used for display. Could you describe how you use Character Palette to do that?+
Well, not "display" in the sense of opening a file using an OpenType font on the Mac and seeing it display properly. What I do in Character Palette with an OpenType font like Sanskrit2003 is scroll through the font to find the elements I want and double-click them to enter them in a document. Of course this workaround is feasible only for the occasional word, not for whole sentences or paragraphs. I'm not a big time user of any of this, so I can manage for the occasional word I want.
+The reason they do this is because a lot of documents and web pages could specify Arial in them and users would get the idea that OS X does not support Devanagari, Tamil, Tibetan, etc unless they switch the font, which is impossible in Safari.+
Yeah, I can see the reason; but wouldn't it be easier in the long run to just enable OpenType fonts so everyone can use the same fonts? And it is annoying that you can't specify fonts in Safari like in Camino.
+I agree, but have doubts this will happen soon. Perhaps more likely is an app like Mellel which does OpenType could be expanded to cover these scripts.+
Several years ago the developer of Mellel assured me that v.2 would support Indic scripts. But it never happened.
+In the meantime, OpenOffice/X11 does work for display I think.+
Yes, OpenType fonts can be used in OpenOffice/X11 (which is no longer being developed, BTW, now that there's a native OS X version). But not AAT fonts.
+This might interest you:+
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1577715&tstart=0
Indeed, though much of it is over my head. I just want to be able to use the same fonts for Indic languages as everyone else, just as I can in Chinese, etc.

Arial font substitution for (LabVIEW for) Linux

Hello,
as LabVIEW was not capable of keeping the font size and spacing constant when running a VI under different Windows versions, screen resolutions etc, I have never used the "application", "system" and "dialog" font options in LabVIEW but have fixed all fonts to Arial 14 pt. This worked wonderful on all Windows systems - without that unnerving problem that control lables overwrite each other and things like that (what always happened when using LabVIEWs "application" font option).
Now, when running the same VIs under LabVIEW for Linux, the font looks terrible, as there is no Arial font in Linux. Does somebody know an easy way to solve this problem without setting all fonts to "application font" in LabVIEW? For instance, any "ini file type" setting in Linux telling the operating system which font to use when Arial is not present, or any free font substitution that we could add to our installer routine that the operating system would use automatically instead of Arial?
Best regards,
Gabs

Unfortunately, your problem is a version of a generic problem faced by GUI programmers of all types - how do you handle varying system fonts? There are various solutions, based on who your customers are. You are using one of the easy ones that works well until you start doing cross-platform development. The main options are, in order or increasing complexity:
Lock the font to a specific font and size. This works well if your customers are limited to a single platform and are not visually impaired (do not want to use large fonts).
Use system fonts and allow extra space. This is a compromise that only works in most cases. Use about 50% extra for small strings and 10% - 20% for larger strings. This also gives you extra space for localization, should you need it. Visually impaired customers will run into space issues, because large fonts can be 2X or more larger than the default, system fonts. Note that the different Windows variants have different font sizes as well. Windows Vista increased default font sizes, especially for some Asian languages, such as Japanese.
Query the font size on entry into a GUI VI and rescale everything appropriately. This is hard, since it must be done for every VI with a GUI. Some system dialogs do not handle large fonts well, so you will probably end up replacing them with your own versions to get good appearance. You could probably write a system to handle this sort of scaling, but to my knowledge, no one has (please prove me wrong ). I have always used custom code when needed.
No one really does this well. Change your system font on a Windows OS to large fonts and note all the problems you run into. I would recommend option 2, unless you have a lot of extra time. Your customers will love you if you pull off option 3.
More tips to help.
Do your development on the platform with the largest system fonts. If this is not possible, change the LabVIEW system fonts of your development system to match the largest size you support. I usually develop using 13pt Verdana, since it is one of the largest of the variable spaced fonts.
Check your work by using large fonts in Windows. If it looks good there, it will probably be OK for most uses.
Good luck!
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When I make a PDF from a Word file using Acrobat 9 Standard, the Arial Bold font gets substituted regardless of the font embedding settings. With other PDF creation methods, this does not happen, but I need it to work with Acrobat for some of the features. It is really annoying that the one product I have that is not free does this, when there are other ways of creating PDFs for free that do not do this annoying font substitution. I have observed that this also happened to another user on another machine.
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I have created a form in Acrobat Acrobat X Pro which has some labels in Arial Unicode MS font and when i view the form in Reader 9, I'm not able to view the labels. I have Arial Unicode MS font installed on my machine. What could be the problem?
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its resolved .Font name extention should be in lower case (.ttf)
Edited by: deepz on May 5, 2011 10:15 PM

There is no BOLD font TTF files for Arial Unicode MS. No resolution at this point of time. Closing the issue.
Edited by: vamsee m on Apr 27, 2011 9:29 AM
Closing this issue

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Closing this issue

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We recently upgraded to Flash CS5 and now are facing a lot of problems.
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I selected the settings as shown in attached screenshot.
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Hi Junaid,
Please try these steps
In report builder change fonts of text fields to Arial Unicode MS
1. Copy ARIALUNI.TTF from c:\windows\fonts to c:\Oracle\Middleware\as_1\reports\printers
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C:\Oracle\Middleware\as_1\reports\templates;C:\Oracle\Middleware\as_1\reports\samples\demo;C:\Oracle\Middleware\as_1\reports\printers;C:\WINDOWS\Fonts
2. set NLS_LANG = AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8 in registry
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[ PDF:Subset ]
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Hi,
I am facing a strange issue. I have a flash file where Arabic text is written using Arial Unicode MS and is displayed properly, but when i try to update the text field with new arabic content, the words split up into characters.
The image below shows the issue: Both original as well new content is in the same text field but they are displayed differently.
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I am new to Flash development hence some of the comments/queries might seem very trivial.
I am working on the flash file which was originally developed for English language. Now client would like to extend it to other languages such as Janpanese, Hindi etc.
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Hi,
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Hi,
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