Can i use Arabic font with Tricaster?

[M300SEL]

Hi

Is it possible to use Arabic font in Overlays or any Text function in TC ?

(Arabic is a right to left lang )

if not , will it be upgraded to support Multilanguage's any time soon ?

Regards

Wael

[animlab]

Wael,

There are other ways to doing it. If you look carefully to TitleTemple's file structure you will find the way to use any system installed (Arabic) fonts in TC (or VT). We are using Chinese fonts in Taiwan, left to right, right to left and top to down. So using Arabic fonts is not a question.

If your TC is v2.0, you can use EditText to create TitleTemplate pages with Arabic fonts, then "Export page to Live" to use them in TitleTemplate.

If your TC is v1.0 (TC-100), then it is more complicate to use Arabic fonts. There is a document from NewTek about the script files used by TitleTemplate. You need to read it to create or modify your own TitleTemplate pages files.
The key trick is to understand the "FontStyles" file structure. It is not documented by NewTek, but not too difficult to understand.
First, you need to find the folder contain the FontStyle: "C:\TriCaster\User Data\Default User\TitleTemplates\FontStyles". All so call NewTek font style definition files are there. Pick one ".NewTek Font" file and open it in Notepad. It is a plane text file described how font style are used in page file. The part you need to modify here are values after "font", width", "height", "direction" key words. After modified, save the font style to a new file name and use this file name in you page script files.

My partner have wrote a program for TriCaster v1.0 (TC-100) to do those steps for my local Chnises users. It is in Chinese user interface. If you want this program, I will check with him to see if he can reprogram it into English user interface and sell it outside Taiwan.