Click here for the traditional Chinese version of PageFocus Draw.

International Language Support

The newly released programs are all unicode native, which means that if you have the font (for a particular language), you will be able to display its text properly. It also supports the right-to-left vertical-text found in in some Asian languages.

Spelling Check

Support spelling check for American English,  British English,  Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish.

System Setup for using PageFocus' multi-language support

Lets assume that you want to enable the support of a particular double-byte language, you can do the following:

1.    Open the Control Panel (from Start -> Control Panel)

2.    Select Data, Time, Language and Regional Options

3.    Select Regional and Language Options to display the "Regional and Language Options" dialog box.

4.   Select the Advanced tab.  In the Language for non-Unicode programs, select the language of your choice, in this case, Select "Chinese (Taiwan)"

Select OK.  You will be asked to restart the system.

If you have Windows XP/XP Professional (Chinese Version)

1. 打開控制台
2. 選 "日期, 時間, 語言和區域選項"
3. 選 "地區及語言選項"
4. 選 "進階", 在 "非 Unicode 程式的語言" 一欄內, 選擇一個你所要用的語言
選擇 "確定"
 

If you are using a non-traditional Chinese version of Windows, then you can install Microsoft New Phonetic IME 98a.  If you are using traditional Chinese version of Windows, then the IME should have been installed and you can use PageFocus directly.

About Vertical Text in PageFocus

You can create/edit vertical text, table with vertical text, or fields with vertical text.  You can also curve a vertical text.

To create vertical texts, you will need fonts that start with '@'.  Microsoft provide a number of such fonts.  Of course, other font vendors also provide this type of fonts.

To create vertical text in PageFocus, you can click the vertical text tool icon and then follow the instructions.  You can also switch a "horizontal text" object into a vertical text object by following the menu command sequence: Text -> Option -> Convert to Vertical.  To create a table with vertical text, you will need to select a vertical font, then select the table tool icon to create the table.

If you use Microsoft's Input Method Editor (IME), PageFocus provides WYSIWYG style input, which means that, the text will be shown at the right location while you are composing the text.

How to create a vertical text object:

1.  Create a new page, or open an existing page.

2.  Click the text tool button, either horizontal text, , or vertical text, .  Note that, vertical texts require fonts that start with '@' in its font name.  If you don't have such font, then you will not be able to create vertical text (from right to left).  For example, "新細明體" is a horizontal font, while "@新細明體" is a vertical font.

3.  Drag mouse to create a text area.  Now the "caret" is flashing and you can start to enter text.  To end text editing, press "Esc" key, or, you can double click the mouse outside the text area.  To re-edit a text object, select that object by clicking on top of it, and then double-click on top of it, or just simply press the "Enter" key.

4.  The default Chinese text entry of PageFocus uses Microsoft's IME (Input Method Editor), similar to those used by Microsoft Office.  The display is based on "WYSIWYG" (What You See Is What You Get) style and the entered text will be initially in dark blue color during the "composition" stage.  It will change to whatever color (like black) only after you have accept the "composition".