User`s manual

Conversion Process

 Tip: It is possible to change the source encoding for multiple selected

items in the Source list at once. But you must right-click on the selection

instead of using the pop-up menu button at the right of the font name.

When the font doesn’t have a Unicode table or is encoded as a symbol font,

the legend will not say that the font is “Unicode” and you will have to use

the encoding pop-up menu. The Use Unicode item will be disabled in this

case and you have to determine which encoding the source font has. The

first item is Use Default: this means that TransType will use the codepage

currently selected as default in the Defaults/Codepages & Scripts

Page of the Preferences dialog. The other items in the dropdown list are

the names of codepages. Select one of these codepages if you know that

that codepage is used in the source font.

For example, if the source font is encoded as a symbol font but you know

that actually it is a Cyrillic font, you should choose the MS Windows 1251

Cyrillic codepage in the pop-up menu and TransType will assign the

correct Unicode indexes to all characters.

If you know that the source font is really a Symbol or pictorial font, select

any item in this menu – it doesn’t matter.

 Note: When a definition of the source codepage is necessary but none is

selected (the default value is set to Unspecified and Use Default is

selected in the pop-up menu) TransType will color the font’s name in red

and will disable the Convert button until you specify the source encoding of

the font.