Unexpected font change
I translate a physics book in Greek and now i translate the EPS figures content from English to Greek using Illustrator (the last updated version under Windows 10). The english text uses fonts Times Ten Std. I noticed that when i start typing the corresponding Greek text to substitute the english one, the currently selected font, changes to Myriad Pro and the appearance of the greek text is quite different. Is is possible to solve this issue?
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Yes, it is possible.
You should set up the font parameters you want to have as default, select it, then open View > Type > Paragraph Styles panel, and choose Redefine Paragraph Style command from the panel’s menu (hamburger icon in the top right corner.
Or you can deselect your text first, and then double-click [Normal Paragraph Style] in that panel to edit its options in a dialogue.Both methods will change the default style for this particular document only. A way to change a default font for all new documents requires modifying Document Profile files in the same manner.
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Athanasios Margaris commented
Thank you very much for your answer. In fact this is exactly what I do: when I finish typing I change the Myriad Pro to Times New Roman. It is possible to set Times New Roman as the default font (instead of Myriad Pro) for this substitution?
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Athanasios, Times Ten Std does not support Greek fully:
https://www.fonthaus.com/fonts/monotypeimaging/Times-Ten/MI16740997
If you check Character Map section, you’ll see there are only few Greek letters there.You can do that directly in Illustrator, Window > Type > Glyphs — most probably you version of the font doe not have glyphs needed too, that’s why Illustrator uses a default font to display your input. That’s normal.
A solution would be to use one of specialized Greek font from the same vendor:
https://www.fonthaus.com/fonts/search?search=times+ten+std
or use altogether different Times font, which are many. Standard Times New Roman has all Greek letters in it.
