Fwd: [SEELANGS] Help with old fonts

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Here's what I did - and it worked for me: 


Open the word file. 
Save as web page. 
Close the new webified file (with html extension) 
Open the webified file through a browser. 
The cyrillic showed up accurately, with some loss of paragraph-level formatting. 
Copy the text. 
Open a word document. 
Paste the text. 


As I say, this worked for me, I hope it will work for others. 


Best wishes to all, 


BR 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Dunn" <J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK> 
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu 
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 8:53:07 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Fwd: [SEELANGS] Help with old fonts 

Sadly, I tried this with an old file written in CyrillicNutranslit, and it didn't work. Could it be that some vital link in the chain has not been spelled out? 

John Dunn. 



-----Original Message----- 
From: Benjamin Rifkin <rifkin at TCNJ.EDU> 
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu 
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:32:32 -0500 
Subject: [SEELANGS] Fwd: [SEELANGS] Help with old fonts 

Dear Colleagues: 


Thanks to Tom Dolack of Wheaton College for his suggestion, which worked for me. I share it in the hope that it will be a helpful strategy for you, too. 


Sincerely, 


Ben Rifkin 
The College of New Jersey 

----- Forwarded Message ----- 
From: "Tom Dolack" <dolack_thomas at wheatoncollege.edu> 
To: rifkin at TCNJ.EDU 
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:12:50 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Help with old fonts 

Dear Dr. Rifkin, 

I don't know that this will help at all, but in my experience the best 
way of converting fonts is using HTML. If you can turn the page into a 
web page and then copy from the web page into your word processor, that 
might work. 

I've done this in the past with success, but it also hasn't worked, so 
no guarantees. 

Best of luck with it, 

Tom Dolack 
Wheaton College 
dolack_thomas at wheatoncollege.edu 

Benjamin Rifkin wrote: 
> Dear Colleagues: 
> 
> 
> I have some instructional materials I developed years ago and neglected to shift them from old (non-compliant) fonts into Unicode. Now I find them to be unreadable. I would appreciate any suggestion as to how to "translate" texts in old Macintosh Russian fonts (Norwich US, CyrillicBoldNuTranslit) into Unicode compliant fonts in order to rescue these files. 
> 
> 
> With thanks for any help, 
> 
> 
> Ben Rifkin 
> The College of New Jersey 
> 
> 
> 
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John Dunn 
Honorary Research Fellow, SMLC (Slavonic Studies) 
University of Glasgow, Scotland 

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