Display Non-Latin Alphabets

Newer (Series 4Kx42, 3, 4, and 5) BrightSign players can display non-Latin characters (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew) by default, but you may want to assign a font to replace the default font. Older BrightSign HDx22, LSx22, and HDx20 players use a default Latin character set to display text and you must assign a custom font to display non-Latin characters on these players.

BrightSign players can display any TrueType Font (.ttf or .ttc) file. Your text publishing method (Live Text, Ticker Zones, or HTML 5) will determine how you should upload the font to the player.

The BrightAuthor:connected user interface can use any font set installed on your operating system, but the player can only display font sets that are written to the SD card/storage. So even if a font displays correctly in BrightAuthor:connected, it will not appear on your display if that font is not on the player SD card/storage.

Live Text

BrightAuthor

In BrightAuthor, you can specify a font for a single Live Text element, or you can choose a default font to use with all Live Text elements:

Change the Font for a Single Live Text Element

Create or open a Live Text state.
Drag and drop a Live Text element from the Widgets section.
Navigate to Layer Properties > Set Text Parameters.
Select Local Font under Font.
Locate and open the non-Latin font file you wish to use.

Choose a Default Font for Live Text Elements

Navigate to Edit > Preferences.
Select the Live Text tab.
Select the Browse box next to the Font field.
Locate and open the non-Latin font file you wish to use.
Select OK to apply the new default font.

BrightAuthor:connected

In BrightAuthor:connected, you can upload a new font through Presentation Settings > Support Content > Files, as shown in Image 1, below. Once you have uploaded the font (using the arrow icon to the left of Publish), it will be available to use in your presentation. It can be assigned to your text under Set Text Parameters when the Live Text widget is selected in the Presentation window.

Image 1

Ticker Zones

Ticker Zone Fonts in BrightAuthor

Navigate to Edit > Playlist in the secondary toolbar.
Select the Ticker zone and click the Zone Properties button next to the zone layout view.
Click the Browse box next to the Font field.
Locate and open the non-Latin font file you wish to use.
Click OK to close the Edit Zone box and apply the font to all text in the zone. However, this change will not apply to other Ticker zones in the presentation.

Ticker Zone Fonts in BrightAuthor:connected

Upload the font as described in the Live Text section and shown in Image 1, above.
Select your Ticker zone
Open the Properties section and select the font

HTML 5

There are two ways to display non-Latin characters in an HTML 5 zone:

The page CSS can call the font from local storage. Make sure to place the font file in the root of the site folder that is contained in the local storage (as shown in Image 2).

If the player is retrieving the HTML 5 page file(s) from a remote source, it can download and display any web fonts called by the page.

Image 2