Simsun Font

I have a Microsoft WORD document with some translations in Chinese using Simsun font. I can see the text in WORD, but when I copy and paste it into InDesign it appears as a selection of boxes with a pinkish background. I have checked that the font is on my PC - it shows up as a ttc, not a ttf, but is selectable in Microsoft products and not Adobe ones.

Simsun Font

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TTC means Truetype font Collection, and Simsun, if properly installed, should show up in Indesign near the bottom of the font list, not in the S section. Indesign separates fonts by encoding, and it starts with all the roman fonts first.

You can change the Chinese characters to any other font that supports Chinese. The CS packages come with a plethora of fonts -- if you don't have them installed, check your DVDs for the Fonts folder. Good Chinese fonts are Adobe Heiti, Kaiti, Song, and Fangsong. Beware, though, not all of the fonts have \"all\" of the characters (as there is no such notion :-)). Then simply use \"Find Font\" to change, or (better) use Find & Replace to change SimSun to an appropriate Character Style.

Additionally, that weird Word automatically uses another font if the document uses characters not in the 'default' font. If you replace the fonts in your InDesign document and still see unformatted ones (pink), try a GREP search for the Chinese characters. The expression

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