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Punjabi fonts, anyone?
Hi
I'm building an online virtual tour to help parents to understand what happens when they bring their child into our Children's hospital for surgery - who they will meet, where they will wait, what they can bring etc.
Vancouver is a pretty multicultural city, and we're creating versions in English, Chinese (simplified and traditional character sets), Vietnamese and Punjabi.
The latter is causing me problems in Storyline - for the other languages, I can simply cut and paste from our translation documents and build the pages as usual, and for the downloadable resources I can also paste the name of the resource in the relevant script. Except for Punjabi - when I try and paste a Punjabi resource name into Storyline, it won't recognise the font, and I just see junk characters.
So my question to the Storyline community - has anyone successfully used Punjabi in a slide page and in the names of resources, and if so, which fonts will work?
Here's a sample of the text I'm working with: ਸਵਾਲ ਜਿਹੜੇ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਆਪਣੇ ਬੱਚੇ ਦੀ ਆ ਰਹੀ ਸਰਜਰੀ ਬਾਰੇ ਪੁੱਛਣਾ ਚਾਹੁੰਦੇ ਹੋ ਸਕਦੇ ਹੋ
Hi Andy, I am out of Burnaby. I am looking into doing this now as well. How you resolved this issue?
Thanks,
Arnold
a short test with windows 11 and Open Sans
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/186bff69-83c7-4001-86b4-51ed031aa907/review
Hi Jürgen, thank you for doing that. I do not speak or can read Punjabi. I am just working on a translation of a course into that language. Based on a few articles I read, a Punjabi font (Raavi) can be used while designing but won't work when published. See the article below from 2021. that is why I am asking if Punjabi (Gurmukhi script) is finally supported. Do you know?
Font issue in the published courses - Articulate Storyline Discussions - E-Learning Heroes
Thank you
I have checked some text with "Noto Sans Gurmukhi" (used on the BBC website)
https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Gurmukhi
sample text from
https://www.bbc.com/punjabi/india-44022735on top: storyline published text
on bottom: screenshot from the bbc websitein storyline
published to review 360
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/99163bf3-bb2c-4686-8ea3-20f4176f0536/review
there is a difference - i don't know if this is important, i don't speak the language either
Thank you for looking into this.
I do not speak the language either but two native speakers say the text is not displayed correctly. That confirms that Articulate storyline 360 does not support Punjabi (Gurmukhi script).
Some people had the issue 9 years ago: Punjabi fonts, anyone? - Articulate Storyline Discussions - E-Learning Heroes
Some people had the same issue last year: Font issue in the published courses - Articulate Storyline Discussions - E-Learning Heroes
I am having this issue today in 2022! punjabi font test | Review 360 (articulate.com)
some more results for: ਬੈਠੇ ਲੋਕ
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/17677cae-818f-413f-b610-9c2667ca6533/review
error with: Noto Sans Gurmukhi
no error with: Open Sans, Arial, Times, Courierperhaps you should try a font without Punjabi support
thank you for trying al of this! you are a hero!
and with preview there is no error with the Punjabi fonts with: ਬੈਠੇ ਲੋਕ
in authoring there seems to be used a different version of ਠੇ (like here in the forum)
Update 1: with Chrome there is no error - Safari other errors !!
Chrome 107Update: Safari - ok for Noto - other fonts have different errors !!!!!
firefox 107:
the error is browser dependent !!!
I tried using 3 different fonts and have tried just one browser (Edge, basically chrome) but keep getting the same errors
It is May 2024 and Articulate Storyline still does not support Punjabi. We have no choice but to screenshot Punjabi text in Microsoft products (Word, PPT, etc) and paste it on an AS360.
