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select fonts not printing bold
Why is bold font showing in print preview but its not printing bold? After
much messing around with it, one random line of bold font did print in bold, but the other bold font didn't print bold. And its not just one font. Its several fonts doing this. New issue I've never encountered. Any help would be greatly appreciated! : ) |
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Answer: select fonts not printing bold
Hi there! I'm sorry to hear that you're having trouble with your fonts not printing bold. Here are a few things you can try to troubleshoot the issue:
I hope these tips help you resolve the issue!
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Does the font in use actually have a bold variant?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Renauda" wrote in message ... Why is bold font showing in print preview but its not printing bold? After much messing around with it, one random line of bold font did print in bold, but the other bold font didn't print bold. And its not just one font. Its several fonts doing this. New issue I've never encountered. Any help would be greatly appreciated! : ) |
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Oh my goodness, could it be that simple? Maybe for some fonts that is the
case. I guess I didn't know that some fonts do not have a bold option...unless they show in bold as standard version from the start. However, the mystery remains. Why does print preview show bold font if its not available? And more mysterious is that in one simple word document it will print one line of the bold text in bold, but the other lines of bold font print do no print bold...and its the same font in the same document. Thank you for responding, Suzanne. If you have any additional ideas I'd love to hear them! : ) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Does the font in use actually have a bold variant? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Renauda" wrote in message ... Why is bold font showing in print preview but its not printing bold? After much messing around with it, one random line of bold font did print in bold, but the other bold font didn't print bold. And its not just one font. Its several fonts doing this. New issue I've never encountered. Any help would be greatly appreciated! : ) |
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Some applications will synthesize a bold appearance, and you may even be
able to print it with specific printer settings, but for the most part, if the font doesn't have a bold variant, regardless of what you see on the screen, you won't get bold print. Beyond that, I'm hopelessly ignorant, so I'm cross-posting this message to the word.printingfonts newsgroup, which may result in a more authoritative answer. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Renauda" wrote in message ... Oh my goodness, could it be that simple? Maybe for some fonts that is the case. I guess I didn't know that some fonts do not have a bold option...unless they show in bold as standard version from the start. However, the mystery remains. Why does print preview show bold font if its not available? And more mysterious is that in one simple word document it will print one line of the bold text in bold, but the other lines of bold font print do no print bold...and its the same font in the same document. Thank you for responding, Suzanne. If you have any additional ideas I'd love to hear them! : ) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Does the font in use actually have a bold variant? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Renauda" wrote in message ... Why is bold font showing in print preview but its not printing bold? After much messing around with it, one random line of bold font did print in bold, but the other bold font didn't print bold. And its not just one font. Its several fonts doing this. New issue I've never encountered. Any help would be greatly appreciated! : ) |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Some applications will synthesize a bold appearance, and you may even be able to print it with specific printer settings, but for the most part, if the font doesn't have a bold variant, regardless of what you see on the screen, you won't get bold print. Beyond that, I'm hopelessly ignorant, so I'm cross-posting this message to the word.printingfonts newsgroup, which may result in a more authoritative answer. If bold is displayed, whether it's from a bold variant or a MS Word's horrendous artificial bold or italic, it should print just as seen on the screen. It's more likely a printing options problem, a printer driver problem, or a printer memory problem (unlikely). Since printer drivers and their available options are unique to each printer and operating system, I can only offer some very general approaches. Some printers/drivers have an option to 'print truetype as graphics'. If yours does, toggle the setting to see if it makes a difference. You might also go to your printer's website and download the latest printer driver for your operating system, if you don't already have the latest version. In your Word document, is it possibly set to printing in draft mode (Tools/Options/Print)? Have you tried printing the document as the first thing after booting up? It's possible that your computer was running out of resources - although this used to result in corrupted on-screen displays as well. It might help if you'd specify what Operating System you're using, what version of Word, what printer, the version of the printer driver you have, and the names of the fonts that are exhibiting the problem, along with the names of some fonts that seem to be working properly. That's all that comes to mind immediately. - Character -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Renauda" wrote in message ... Oh my goodness, could it be that simple? Maybe for some fonts that is the case. I guess I didn't know that some fonts do not have a bold option...unless they show in bold as standard version from the start. However, the mystery remains. Why does print preview show bold font if its not available? And more mysterious is that in one simple word document it will print one line of the bold text in bold, but the other lines of bold font print do no print bold...and its the same font in the same document. Thank you for responding, Suzanne. If you have any additional ideas I'd love to hear them! : ) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Does the font in use actually have a bold variant? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Renauda" wrote in message ... Why is bold font showing in print preview but its not printing bold? After much messing around with it, one random line of bold font did print in bold, but the other bold font didn't print bold. And its not just one font. Its several fonts doing this. New issue I've never encountered. Any help would be greatly appreciated! : ) |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Some applications will synthesize a bold appearance, and you may even be able to print it with specific printer settings, but for the most part, if the font doesn't have a bold variant, regardless of what you see on the screen, you won't get bold print. Beyond that, I'm hopelessly ignorant, so I'm cross-posting this message to the word.printingfonts newsgroup, which may result in a more authoritative answer. If bold is displayed, whether it's from a bold variant or a MS Word's horrendous artificial bold or italic, it should print just as seen on the screen. It's more likely a printing options problem, a printer driver problem, or a printer memory problem (unlikely). Since printer drivers and their available options are unique to each printer and operating system, I can only offer some very general approaches. Some printers/drivers have an option to 'print truetype as graphics'. If yours does, toggle the setting to see if it makes a difference. You might also go to your printer's website and download the latest printer driver for your operating system, if you don't already have the latest version. In your Word document, is it possibly set to printing in draft mode (Tools/Options/Print)? Have you tried printing the document as the first thing after booting up? It's possible that your computer was running out of resources - although this used to result in corrupted on-screen displays as well. It might help if you'd specify what Operating System you're using, what version of Word, what printer, the version of the printer driver you have, and the names of the fonts that are exhibiting the problem, along with the names of some fonts that seem to be working properly. That's all that comes to mind immediately. - Character -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Renauda" wrote in message ... Oh my goodness, could it be that simple? Maybe for some fonts that is the case. I guess I didn't know that some fonts do not have a bold option...unless they show in bold as standard version from the start. However, the mystery remains. Why does print preview show bold font if its not available? And more mysterious is that in one simple word document it will print one line of the bold text in bold, but the other lines of bold font print do no print bold...and its the same font in the same document. Thank you for responding, Suzanne. If you have any additional ideas I'd love to hear them! : ) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Does the font in use actually have a bold variant? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Renauda" wrote in message ... Why is bold font showing in print preview but its not printing bold? After much messing around with it, one random line of bold font did print in bold, but the other bold font didn't print bold. And its not just one font. Its several fonts doing this. New issue I've never encountered. Any help would be greatly appreciated! : ) |
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I have never found that either Word or Publisher will actually print
synthesized bold. I thought there was a chance they might if you have "Download TrueType fonts as soft fonts" or the like enabled in the printer Properties, since that forces the printer to print what is displayed on the screen, but I'm not confident even of that. I try to avoid using fonts that don't have the full complement of B, I, BI except in specialized cases where only a single display face is needed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Character" wrote in message ... Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Some applications will synthesize a bold appearance, and you may even be able to print it with specific printer settings, but for the most part, if the font doesn't have a bold variant, regardless of what you see on the screen, you won't get bold print. Beyond that, I'm hopelessly ignorant, so I'm cross-posting this message to the word.printingfonts newsgroup, which may result in a more authoritative answer. If bold is displayed, whether it's from a bold variant or a MS Word's horrendous artificial bold or italic, it should print just as seen on the screen. It's more likely a printing options problem, a printer driver problem, or a printer memory problem (unlikely). Since printer drivers and their available options are unique to each printer and operating system, I can only offer some very general approaches. Some printers/drivers have an option to 'print truetype as graphics'. If yours does, toggle the setting to see if it makes a difference. You might also go to your printer's website and download the latest printer driver for your operating system, if you don't already have the latest version. In your Word document, is it possibly set to printing in draft mode (Tools/Options/Print)? Have you tried printing the document as the first thing after booting up? It's possible that your computer was running out of resources - although this used to result in corrupted on-screen displays as well. It might help if you'd specify what Operating System you're using, what version of Word, what printer, the version of the printer driver you have, and the names of the fonts that are exhibiting the problem, along with the names of some fonts that seem to be working properly. That's all that comes to mind immediately. - Character -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Renauda" wrote in message ... Oh my goodness, could it be that simple? Maybe for some fonts that is the case. I guess I didn't know that some fonts do not have a bold option...unless they show in bold as standard version from the start. However, the mystery remains. Why does print preview show bold font if its not available? And more mysterious is that in one simple word document it will print one line of the bold text in bold, but the other lines of bold font print do no print bold...and its the same font in the same document. Thank you for responding, Suzanne. If you have any additional ideas I'd love to hear them! : ) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Does the font in use actually have a bold variant? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Renauda" wrote in message ... Why is bold font showing in print preview but its not printing bold? After much messing around with it, one random line of bold font did print in bold, but the other bold font didn't print bold. And its not just one font. Its several fonts doing this. New issue I've never encountered. Any help would be greatly appreciated! : ) |
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