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 I've imported text from WORD and some of it contains spanish letters, created using INSERT SYMBOL.  It appears okay in QUARK on screen, but when I convert the document into a pdf all the spanish letters are replaced.  None of my fonts support spanish, so how can I produce documents using them?

I would suggest using the ASCII escape codes for those characters inside XPress and not relying on Word to do it for you. Word brings over a lot of junk into XPress usually and it's probably making some extended character calls on those fonts that XPress does not support; particularly if your version of Word is relatively new. XPress 6.x was the first version of XPress to handle Open Type fonts and then only the first 255 characters of the set. XPress 5.x never had that ability and if Word is using an OTF then XPress is probably choking on it.

By ASCII escape codes, I'm meaning the ALT+XXX form that gives you those characters. I'm assuming you are PC. If you aren't then it's a different matter (and easier on Mac). 

 Hi, sounds promising, but you're well over my head here.  Can you explain it even more simply?  I'm using a Mac (G3 Powerbook), and would like to make the changes within the document (a book 100 pages long) rather than having to start over again.

Phil

I'll try. Let's say that your Word document imports with the following word: español. But when you print you get: espaª∞Nol or something weird like that.

In your Quark XPress document find those instances. Select the character that you know is going to go weird on you and delete it. Then replace it with the appropriate accent.

In the case of the word above, español, the accent over the N is made by pressing OPTN+N, letting go of the keys and then hitting the n key. Add SHIFT in there (when you go to press the letter you need accented) if you need a capitol:  Ñ

That's pretty much it. Others: ü (option+u), é (option+e), å (option+a), î (option+i).

Hope that helps. 

 this works fine Erik, thanks very much for the tip!

You're welcome. Watch out for Word. It generates a lot of garbage. 

Erik,

I'm experiencing a similar issue with quark 7. I have a document that needs to be produced in spanish so a 3rd party provided me with the actual translated text in a Word file but the font that was used in the quark file doesn't appear to have the appropriate foreign accents. Is that what is required to produce a language version or am I missing something in quark? Thanks.

Karen

 Not all fonts are equal. Some fonrt creators either forget to include foreign language characters or just don't design them to begin with. If it's an Opentype font that you are using in the XPress document you can try the glyph palatte (I haven't used that yet, so I don't know).

But if that doesn't help, the only thing I can suggest is to change the font in the document to one that has that appropriate set. If tha'ts going to be a major headache because it completely alters the document then you can fake it. Find a similar font that has these characters and change JUST the accents to that font.