You are not listening!
This has nothing whatsoever to do with your printer. It has everything to do
with the way Word addresses printer drivers.
Word can only use fonts that the active printer driver is capable of
printing. Word interrogates the driver far more closely than other
applications. Whether other applications can use the font is irrelevant. The
issue concerns not the printer but the *driver*!!!
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site
www.gmayor.com
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http://word.mvps.org
Windbag wrote:
Corel X3 shows the font fine (as I said at the start), and it prints
it to the printer fine. Obviously Word doesn't as it shows it on the
screen wrong.
So I don't suspect a deficiency in printer (A Xerox Phaser 8200).
I just tried using the font in Notepad - it also gets it wrong.
But I've also just tried using the font in Excel2007, which gets it
right! So obviously I had to try PowerPoint2007, which aslo gets it
right.
Going back to Word - it still gets it wrong :-(
The plot thickens....
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
What Peter was trying to convey is that Word will only display the
fonts that the currently active printer driver is capable of
printing. Whether the printer that is physically connected to your
PC works or not is irrelevant.
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Windbag wrote:
Thanks for plugging away, Peter.
The printer is working fine - it is what is on screen that is the
problem - I never get to see my font even there, let alone hard
copy....
Anyone else any ideas?
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
So long as your printer isn't set to something like "Generic text"
I have no other good ideas right now.
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Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
"Windbag" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the suggestion, it was certainly needed! I looked
there, but the
only font cited as missing is Gill sans, and it is using True-type
Gil sans
instead - which sounds pretty innocuous/OK to me.
Any other ideas, anyone?
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
It may be worth looking for clues in Word Office button||Word
optins|Advanced|Show document control|Font substitution...
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Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
"Windbag" wrote in message
...
I've been using MSWord 2007/Viista for a few weeks (previously
Word2k/Win2k).
Opened an old document that used special font. The font IS
installed on
the
new machine as Corel X3 picks it up fine. It is a TTF not an
OTF,
MS word does not. It is in the list of fonts. but previews
wrong in that
drop-down box and in the document itself - it seems to be
substituting the
font for another.
Ideas of how to get my font?