Asian font rendering problem

I want to use Devanagari (the standard Hindi font). The font (Devanagari MT, a true-type font) is installed but the OS does not seem to be able to render it (or is this up to individual applications?). None of my browsers render the font (I don't have this problem in Windows). The font is available to me in other applications (Word, Pages, Photoshop, etc) but will not render on screen or in print. It is switched on in Font Book (where it renders correctly on screen), and when I validate the font it is passed as safe to use.

I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. Can anyone help?

(Using 10.4.10, but I've had this problem since Panther on three separate Macs.)

15" MBP, 2ghz, 2gb RAM; Mac Mini, 1.4ghz, 1gb RAM, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Aug 25, 2007 3:23 PM

17 replies

Sep 18, 2007 6:47 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

I am having similar problems. I have activated my keyboard and have no problem inputting Devanagri into TextEdit but I cannot see Devanagri Unicode or type in Word. Any suggestions?

Tom Gewecke

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Sep 19, 2007 3:19 AM in response to shicks4261

I cannot see Devanagri Unicode or type in Word. Any suggestions?

MS Word for Mac (and Adobe apps) do not support Devanagari. You need to use another app. See this note:

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/TypingDevanagari.html

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