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Dear the great team standing behind this great product...

my company has purchased the opus pro xe 5.5, its great application with many features!, but unlucky we cant build multi-languages application especially the database application, we have database application that works in three different language of database (German-English-Arabic), please can you add a service release to solve this problem (Unicode), i wish you can help and advice by any mean.

best regards
mohammed Ibrahim
multimedia developer

Mohammed --

The current version 6 of OPUS has been out for months, so you need to upgrade from version 5.5. You will love the improvements.

I've built several multiple language Publications using OPUS. When the first Page appears, I have Buttons for each language I support. The English Button sets my <Language> variable to "1". French Button sets it to "2", etc.

Each Publication Page contains Hidden Text Objects with the different languages in different Layers. I have an "On Show" Object for each Page which checks which language was requested (1, 2, 3), then it displays the English (1) , French (2) , or German (3) text. Using OPUS Layers, I found to be easier than building separate Chapters for each language. Maintenance is a snap.

Dear Fred Harms

thank you, i will tell my boss to upgrade to the current version of 6 and we will see, thanks a lot for help, in addition with opus we use also (DIRECTOR), if u need any help, i am there, just let me know.

best regards
mohammed ibrahim

BTW: The upcoming version of Director will also support Unicode. A long period of suffering will then be over

T.

The new version of Director 11 was released last week. Unicode support does not work right to left, and most 3rd party Xtras will need updating.
There are a few frustrated people trying to upgrade older pubs using D11, including me.
This is the wrong place to discuss Director, so I'll say no more about it.

Paul

... thanks for this information though.

T.