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Installing New Japanese Fonts

As a major in East Asian Studies, I have been using the Japanese input (by configuring "international") for about two years. This afternoon, I was working on a powerpoint presentation in for my Japanese class and I decided to spruce it up by downloading some cool Japanese fonts. A few of the fonts I downloaded were from this site.

I installed these fonts and successfully verified them. When I try to find them in my font list in Powerpoint or Microsoft Word, they're not there. Is there something special I need to do to get those programs to recognize these fonts?

I tried to access these fonts with Photoshop, which was successful. When I tried to use the "hiragana" input, the font switched back to the default Japanese font on my computer. What do I do so that I can use the "hiragana" input to write in Japanese with the new fonts?

MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on May 5, 2008 1:23 PM

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May 5, 2008 5:18 PM in response to SatelliteVoices

Still, a couple of the fonts (though they have alphabet, katakana, and hiragana support) can't be used with "hiragana" input...the hiragana reverts back to the default Japanese font.


Are you able to use them in Apple apps like TextEdit or iWork?

Are they all .ttf fonts? I think that is essential.

You may want to also ask in the forums where MS experts hang out:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/topics
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.powerpoint/topics

Installing New Japanese Fonts

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