While the world is moving toward Unicode, the print industry in Kerala still relies heavily on PageMaker and ML fonts like Revathi. By using tools like ISM and understanding the difference between Unicode and ASCII, you can create beautiful Malayalam documents without the headache of rendering errors.

: If you have text written in Unicode (web text), you must use a Unicode to ML converter to translate the characters into the ML-Revathi encoding before pasting into PageMaker.

Using in Adobe PageMaker involves specific steps because this font is an older ASCII/ISFOC-encoded Malayalam font rather than a modern Unicode font. Since PageMaker is legacy software, it does not support Unicode, making fonts like ML-Revathi the standard choice for professional layout work. 1. Download and Install the Font