
Internationalizing Printing
4. Click Apply. If you wish to change Preference settings, use the Language Bar and the Key Settings
buttons.Language Bar preferences include showing additional language bar icons on the taskbar.
5. Click OK.
Step 2 – Entering characters from the Symbol List
1. Choose the language from the systray (for this example, Japanese), and a floating keyboard is
displayed.
2. Click the down arrow next to the “Soft Keyboard” text.
3. Select Symbol List from drop-down menu.
4. Click the down arrow under the Symbol List heading, change symbol to Shift JIS.
5. Select the proper font for your printer, in this case, Kanji 1.
6. Open Microsoft Word.
7. Select the symbol(s) you need to print on your label from the floating keyboard.
The symbols are displayed in the Word Document.
Step 3 - Saving the Symbol File
1. Click Enter on the Input Method Editor. The symbols/characters are visible, but are not saved to
the Word document prior to clicking Enter.
2. Change your input type back to English using the icon in the systray.
3. Save the file with Save as Type set to Encoded Text (*.txt). When you click Save, you are prompted
with the message “Styles, pictures and other formatting cannot be saved in an Encoded Text file,
do you want to save name of file.txt anyway?”
4. Click OK.
The file is now saved in the encoded txt format and can no longer be opened nor viewed in Word, but it
does have the correct raw data to be sent to the printer in Shift-JIS format.
Related Information
For more information on Data Sources, refer to the Data Sources section of this guide.
Creating DBCS Font Fields using a Database or Files
It is also possible to add double-byte fonts to your label by sending the data for the field using Data
Source in the Loftware Properties box.
Data Sources
Adding a DBCS font field with data sources is very similar to using any database or file datasource with
Loftware.
Note: Asian Characters are not displayed in Design View at this time, but are printed.ASCII characters are
displayed in the Design View.
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