Mac: Import Word Documents With Thai Text

[Ratsima]

Ms. R uses Windows machines at work and produces documents in Microsoft Word which are often composed using Thai text. At times she needs to work on those documents at home where we have nothing but Macs.

We have tried using OpenOffice and NeoOffice, but their handling of Thai text leaves a lot to be desired. Imported documents are often missing some Thai characters (especially ำ). The print quality from either of these applications is especially poor. Text Edit does a much better job of displaying and printing Thai text, but it can often not handle complex formatting done in Word; especially tables and graphics.

I am thinking about buying Apple's iWork package which includes Pages, their Word-compatible word processor. However, before laying out the bucks I wonder if any of you have tried importing Word for Windows Thai-text documents into Pages? I'm especially interested in learning how well Pages handles Word documents with complex formatting, including tables, graphics and fancily formatted text.

TIA

[nidge]

using pages you do not import, just double click to open. Should not have a problem, i do it all the time.

Nidge

[jerrylee]

the new DELL notebook at around 8,500 bht may be cheaper than

buying the original software for the Mac?

Problem is font compaitability on the 2 platforms