Expert: Amy - 1/18/2005

Question
Hello Amy,

Nice to meet you ^_^

I'm using Illustrator 10.0 with Window XP in PC.

I want to know, if someone types the contents with Greece, French or German in MS Word, how can I copy the content and paste to Illustrator correctly?

As I simply copied them directly from MS Word and pasted in Illustrator, the words were changed to "symbols".

Please help. Thanks!

Answer
Hi Nikki,

I'd like to take a look at a sample of the Word document you are trying to paste into Illustrator.

Sometimes, documents can contain unicode fonts that Illustrator doesn't support (glyphs, accented characters, etc.). Even though the font displays great in Word, it won't display in Illustrator.

There are sometimes work arounds, depending on the Word document, so I'd like to take a look! In the meantime, try copying the text and pasting it into another application (try PhotoShop) and then copying it from PhotoShop into Illustrator.  What happens?

Can you send a short Word doc to my yahoo address: AmyAtExperts@yahoo.com

Thanks!
Amy Pace