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#1 Alex H

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Posted 19 October 2010 - 01:48 PM

Hi,

Before I updated the Accordance software to 9.0.4, I was able to copy and paste the Hebrew font (Yehudit) onto Microsoft Word (Mac 2008) with relative ease.

Now the fonts are coming off weird, having barely any semblance to the actual Hebrew text.

Currently, I'm highlighting the text, clicking "Print", then going to "Print Preview" and copying the text from that page to Microsoft Word.

I was wondering if there is a solution so that I can go back to copying and pasting Yehudit directly to Microsoft Word (Mac 2008) without the Hebrew text being misaligned and different? Thank you!

#2 Ron Webber

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Posted 19 October 2010 - 02:41 PM

Are your preference settings for copying the font set correctly? Choose Preferences... and the Greek & Hebrew settings. Then make certain that you have NOT checked the box to Export All Characters in Unicode Format. Then make sure that the Hebrew Format settings are set to export the Yehudit font.

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Posted 19 October 2010 - 02:52 PM

I am having the exact same problem as Alex. I had 9.0.4 and I could copy and paste in microsoft word no problem. I just made the update to 9.0.5 and yehudit will not copy over into word. I also have Office 2008 for mac. I've made sure that the preferences in Accordance are correct (they're the same as before), but this still did not help.

#4 R. Mansfield

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Posted 19 October 2010 - 03:46 PM

I'm not having this error. Yehudit Hebrew is pasting from Accordance 9.05 to Word 2008 just fine for me.

Is this something that running Font Fixer might help?
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#5 Alex H

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Posted 19 October 2010 - 04:01 PM

@ Ron- It works. Thank you so much for your help! I can now write my Hebrew paper in peace. :D

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Posted 19 October 2010 - 04:38 PM

Got it working. Solved with a simple restart (slaps head with hand).

#7 Ron Webber

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Posted 19 October 2010 - 05:18 PM

Glad things are working well for you now. Really, the best option for working with Hebrew and Greek is to choose the preference to Export to Unicode. However current versions of MS WORD (or even the new release of MS WORD 2011) do not support right-to-left languages. If you use Mellel as your word processor, the typographic spacing is superior and incorporation of right-to-left languages like Hebrew is unexcelled.

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Posted 01 November 2010 - 05:34 PM

I can't paste Hebrew into Word or Pages in non-unicode, non-RTL format. Several lines will be fine, and suddenly a section of a line will be in reverse order, then it will switch back. It's really disconcerting when I'm trying to set up text with indenting from the left margin to illustrate the clause syntax.

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