Adobe InDesign Tips: Japanese/CJK Functionality + English UI—Redux

Dr Ken Lunde
Nov 5 · 5 min read

By Dr Ken Lunde, Chief Type Architect-At-Large, Chez Lunde

Ipublished a CJK Type Blog article in April of 2017 that enumerates nine specific steps that allows one to expose Japanese text layout functionality in Adobe InDesign while preserving an English-language UI. These steps have proven to work time and time again, with each subsequent major update of InDesign, which, like clockwork, torpedoes my preferred working environment. Though the nine-step process works, it is arguably convoluted.

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