Foreign fonts

Question

I created a project using Director MX 2004 (on a Macintosh). I need to translate it in to Hungarian, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese. Where can I get these foreign language fonts that can be used with Director MX 2004?

Answer 1

Here is an example of using a custom scrollbar to scroll an image <http://nonlinear.openspark.com/tips/oop/scrollBar/>.  (The fact that there is text beside the image is irrelevant; the technique would work just as well with only images).
Not so long ago, I created a movie which scrolled several pages of text in Hebrew, using Director MX 2004.  The pages were all stored as 8-bit grayscale images.   I used the grayscale image as the alpha channel for a coloured 32-bit image, so that the white pixels in the 8-bit image became transparent.  I used a modification of the behavior in the demo movie above to scroll the image of the text and a parchment background simultaneously.  The result was that the text appeared to be written on the parchment.  The person who dealt with the preparing the images of the text did not have to have any knowledge of Director.
Director MX 2004 will not display Unicode text, regardless of the font you use.  You must use Director 11.x (preferably 11.5) if you want to use Unicode text in a Director text member.  I suggest that you copy the foreign text from your Word document and paste it into  graphics application which can handle Unicode text.  You can then save the resulting image in a format that Director can import.
The text that you pasted was probably in Helvetica in the original Word document, and Director tried to oblige you by using the same font.