I cant print out Chinese Characters

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Level 1

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I cant print out Chinese Characters

My ibook won't print out Chinese characters at my local 711 here in Taipei? (A Chinese speaking city, needless to say). Its not an issue of Traditional versus Simplified characters and the files are downloaded language transcripts from a learning site I belong to.

And there is no problem printing out Japanese Kanji which are simply Chinese characters adopted into Japanese.

Any suggestions on what is wrong here. The learning site doesn't seem to have any idea beyond saving it as a pdf file and trying again. This hasn't worked.

ibook 12 inch, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Mar 21, 2007 7:56 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

122,216 points

Mar 22, 2007 6:55 AM in response to Damon Cook

My ibook won't print out Chinese characters at my
local 711 here in Taipei?

It's not totally clear what you are talking about. Is this a printer located in a store somewhere that you are connecting your mac to in order to print something on paper? Are you connecting via cable or wireless? Do the documents display correctly on your screen? What application are you using to read the documents and print from? What kind of printer is involved?

If you an provide more details, another place to ask would be the Chinese-Mac mailing list, where someone might be familiar with the issue:

http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/group.html

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Answer 2

Damon Cook Author

Level 1

79 points

Mar 22, 2007 4:37 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Tom.

Yes, the printer is in a 711. Totally generic - Kyocera, every 711 has the same. I connect via usb cable and yes, the documents do display correctly on screen. The application being used is Apples own, I believe, but I have tried Adobe - with no luck.

Thanks for the Chinese-Mac mailing list.

The following two suggestions are from the technical help forum of my language learning site:

1.In your printer options, do you have anything that says "print truetypes as bitmaps" or something like that? That should solve it.

2. You are talking about printing the pdf's right? If this is the case it is simply a matter of your printshop not having the necessary fontfiles installed. A possible work around is to select all the text in the PDF. Copy+Paste this into word using a widely distributed unicode font like Arial. Then try to print these .doc files at your printshop. If you copy+past the stuff, it will give you a possibility to leave out the traditional or simplified (whatever) you don't need + possibly some titles and logo's and thereby reducing the overall number of pages. Which is a good thing if you are charged by the page.

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Answer 3

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

122,216 points

Mar 22, 2007 8:10 PM in response to Damon Cook

The application being used is Apples own, I
believe,

I was referring to specific word processing application, like Word or TextEdit or something. What application is producing the texts you are using? Send me one if you like (tom at bluesky dot org).

As a last resort, you could make a graphic of the text by taking a screenshot and try printing that.

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