Tuesday, January 12, 2010

FAQ: Browser shows squares instead of text!

Q: After exporting our documents with BatchXSLT for InDesign, the browser shows empty squares instead of the real text. What is wrong?

A: This is not a bug of BatchXSLT for InDesign! It happens when documents are created using non-Unicode aware fonts. Such as fonts back from the 1990s, fonts created especially for you, fonts containing a company's logos and glyphs.
Also some very popular (but old) Math fonts are not Unicode aware.

SOLUTION #1: Ask your font dealer for a newer "Unicode-aware" version.

SOLUTION #2: Ask us on how to create a font translation table.

SOLUTION #3: If a character/glyph is not contained in the Unicode UTF-8 set (check with www.unicode.org), you have to create an image and anchor it into the text.

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