FrameMaker 11 Unicode support
We use Adobe FrameMaker 11 for our typesetting work. We need to create press-ready files to print school books mainly on science and maths. Our requirement is typesetting books in English, Bengali and other Indian languages. We need to be able to use Unicode fonts in the body text as well within equations. How can we enable support for Unicode in FM 11?
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With FrameMaker 2015, Adobe reworked the type engine completely. It now supports also Right-To-Left (fully bi-directional), context-sensitive shaping and ligatures.
FrameMaker 2015 fully supports Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew with dictionary support with a lot of magic around it (like automatic layout flipping etc.). Thai is also supported out-of-the-box.
Just recently I have tested the new engine also with other languages. Also other complex scripts languages like Vietnamese, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, work just fine.
Of course, you need fonts that support these languages if you want to get edit text. Arial Unicode MS supports all of them, but has other drawbacks (not very beautiful, no bold, no italic). The Google Noto Sans provides a wide range of fonts for many languages, including Bengali and other Indian languages: https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-beng
So, that is: You will only be able to edit languages like Bengali with FrameMaker 2015. If you want to test it, you can download a FrameMaker 2015 trial version here.