Re: Word needs the font named...

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In article <C23D572D.2888A%REMOVETHISoffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Clive Huggan <REMOVETHISoffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 6/4/07 10:09 PM, in article
1hw5iwa.lrbhrwsyju98N%Merlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Merlin"
<Merlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

Keith, inferring from your initial post that you are using OS X and not
Classic, I'd recommend that you use Times New Roman and Arial in Word
documents rather than Times and Helvetica. The latter were the "old
reliables" in OS 9 and earlier, but Word 2004 -- especially because of the
ATSUI interface -- doesn't render them nearly as well as Times New Roman and
Arial. And as you have found, font substitution comes into play (and will
when/if other people display the documents).

...and while you are being thorough about it, make sure you get the
right TNR and Arial. If you have earlier versions splattered about your
machine by previous versions of Office, you will get strange results.
Don't completely trust version numbers. Don't completely trust release
dates. Read the "get info" on each variation carefully. Then choose the
biggest file. ;-) (Word 2004 was the first with 16 bit per character
Unicode fonts)

I'm with John on font managers. The fewer messes between your fonts and
Office the better. I (currently playing silly games) run about 600,
many with 20 variants each, with nothing but Font Book. There is very
little performance penalty once Word is running. It ain't perfect even
so. One or two fonts are invisible to Word for no reason I can discern.

Once in a blue moon, I use the font menu. With the wysiwyg nonsense
turned off, it is possible to navigate very quickly by typing the first
few characters of whatever name Word idiosyncratically decides to call
it.
One of the silly games I have been playing with fonts is experimenting
with locating fonts in ~/Library rather than /Library. I now have most
in ~/Library with the idea of keeping my Admin account lean as can be.

I have not yet got to the bottom of Office Installation's font spraying
strategies. Keeping all but the bare essentials out of /Library fonts
was supposed to make it easier to spot what it does. I don't install
Office all that often, so it would be nice if there were some
documentation about it.

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