Spacing of Baltic and Central Eastern characters is wrong when printed on HP DeskJet 840C printer.

Everything looks nice on screen. Accented Baltic and Central European letters in Arial, Times New Roman and other fonts overlap each other on the printout. Hewlett Packard approves this bug -- it is not a font, but a printer driver bug. The latest driver release from http://www.hp.com did not solve the problem in February, 2001 yet.

Workaround: HP suggests that the driver of DeskJet 930C printer available from http:// www.hp.com should be used instead.

Posted in March, 2001

Fonts with extensions -Baltic, -CE and -Cyrillic disappear from font lists of CorelDraw 10 and Corel PhotoPaint 10

Like Microsoft Office 2000 applications, the applications of CorelDraw 10 become Unicode-savvy. Both CorelDraw 10 and Corel PhotoPaint 10 displays the base font (physical font) only in the font list. To get access to the characters of particular languages, change the input locale and type text in the corresponding language. Furthermore, CorelDraw displays non-Unicode fonts in grey (marked with red), but allows to use them. These fonts might have other characters instead of the standard ones, thus be incompatible with correct Unicode fonts. Tilde localized fonts are Unicode compatible.

Posted in March, 2001

Some characters in some Tilde fonts get spaced incorrectly when the kerning feature is turned on in MS Windows NT4 and Windows 2000.

Tilde fonts contain a number of kerning pairs for the characters of Eastern European languages. Lately we have discovered a bug that the kerning information for the Eastern European characters is distorted in every application that supports kerning in Windows NT4 and in Windows 2000. The bug works in the following way: whenever there is an accented Eastern European character in a kerning pair, the corresponding Eastern European letter is changed to its related plain latin symbol. E.g., all the kerning data for "dcaron" becomes data for "d". Since "dcaron" contains several negative kerning values, distorted kerning can be observed for the letter "d". The same is true with other accented Latin letters. Tilde reported this bug to Microsoft in December, 2000 and they are working on it. Since this bug shows up in the Unicode fonts, a workaround to this problem is either turning kernings off, or using non-Unicode TrueType fonts or PostScript fonts instead.

Posted in December, 2000

In MS Windows, my Cyrillic and CE fonts work in Adobe PageMaker. Why are they absent in the font list in Adobe Illustrator?

Certain versions of Adobe Illustrator does not support Central European (CE) or Cyrillic fonts. See the Readme.wri file in Adobe Illustrator directory, section Undocumented Features. Fonts for more detailed information.

Solution/workaround: Use one-byte/256 character non-Unicode CE or Cyrillic fonts supplied in Tilde Font pack for Windows.

I have installed Cyrillic fonts but I have access only to Latin characters.

Make sure you have the Russian keyboard layout selected. In most cases only the keyboard layout of the local language is selected and the keyboard layout indicator has not been turned on. It can make an impression that there are no Russian characters in the font.

Solution 1: Install Windows multilingual support kit LinguaType. International resources, fonts, keyboard and language support tools will be set up in your computer. Manage languages and keyboard resources from LinguaType Keyboard Pianist properties.

Solution 2: Add Russian input locale (Keyboard layout) form the Keyboard control panel (Start > Settings > Control Panels > Keyboard > Input Locales). Click Add... to add the needed language to the list. It is a good idea to have the language indicator enabled on taskbar. Switch languages from taskbar menu to type in another language.

Note. In US, German and some other versions of Windows 95, keyboard support of Russian language is not included. If Russian language is not in the language list in Keyboard control panel, download and install Multilanguage Support from Microsoft (1.3 Mb). Follow a link to read explanations on how to set up multilanguage support for Windows 95.

Missing National Characters in Windows System TrueType Fonts

It is probable that the US version of Windows system is installed on your computer or the local information is not set up properly.

Solution 1: Install Windows multilingual support kit LinguaType. International resources, fonts, keyboard and language support tools will be set up in your computer. Manage languages and keyboard resources from LinguaType Keyboard Pianist properties.

Solution 2: download and install Multilanguage Support from Microsoft (1.3 Mb). Follow a link to read explanations on how to set up multilanguage support for Windows 95:

If the "Multilingual Support" is not available (it could occur on systems running Windows 95 build 0950), it is possible to install the latest Microsoft Windows fonts from the internet.

Install MS Windows Fonts only (1.2 Mb)

International Characters Won't Print on HP Printers

Drivers supported with HP laser printers do not support WGL4 fonts. Drivers that support multilingual fonts are available at HP website. 

Solution: Download the latest driver from HP website.
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CE and Cyrillic Fonts Do Not Appear in QuarkXPress Font Menu

In the Macintosh, every font can be assigned an ID specifying the script it contains. The most common one is Roman, some others are Cyrillic and Central European. Most applications do not distinguish between the fonts of different scripts, however some applications do.

There are two versions of QuarkXPress: the regular QuarkXPress and QuarkXPress Passport. QuarkXPress Passport is intended to be used for processing of multilingual documents, so QuarkXPress proper would not show fonts of other scripts in font menu. See more information on Quark at Quark's Tech Support in the Internet.

Workaround: Tilde supplies its Macintosh CE and Macintosh Cyrillic fonts with two different IDs. To use the benefits of WorldScript, install fonts from the folder "For CE Script System" or "For Cyrillic Script System. If you need to use QuarkXPress proper in processing documents with Central European fonts, use fonts from folder "For Roman Script System". Do not mix the two!