Re: Chinese font problems printing to Xerox printers

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Thanks Tom,

I'll look for this utility and give it a try.

George


"Tom Ferguson" wrote:

> I can only address your last query: fonts used list.
>
> Aside from the possibility of writing a macro to do this, the simplest
> method I have found is to use the "Recover text from any file" converter.
> This filter is available on the Office distribution CD. It is not
> installed during a default install.
>
> Tom
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> "George Thompson" <GeorgeThompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:81A69D33-3886-48BA-94CD-DEE7EE4F137F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> : Hi All,
> :
> : Sorry for the long message - this gets complicated. My OS is Windows
> 2000
> : and product is MS Office 2000.
> :
> : We are experiencing some strange problems using the SIMSUN font. We are
> : printing Word documents that are supplied to us from a language
> translator.
> : These are in Simplified and Traditional Chinese. In the past the
> documents
> : used SIMSUN for the Simplified document and PMingLiu for the Traditional
> : document. When we produce a PDF file and look at the complete font list
> we
> : would see SIMSUN083, T4 and T5 fonts in the document, but not PMingLiu.
> These
> : documents would print fine to all of our printing equipment. I am
> assuming
> : that PMingLiu is a subset of the SIMSUN font. Can anyone explaing
> briefly if
> : this is the case?
> :
> : The problem that we are having now is that the recent documents have
> : separate SIMSUN and PMingLiu fonts listed in the PDF file. These
> documents
> : all seem to print O.K. to local HP printers but do not print Traditional
> : correctly on our Xerox Docutech printers. I think the problem comes from
> : documents that have been supplied by our language translator but I'm not
> sure
> : how to communicate this back to them. Is this something to do with the
> : SIMSUN083 font family? Any suggestions?
> :
> : Finally, does anyone have a procedure to display the fonts that are
> being
> : using within a Word document? I have been exporting the documents to PDF
> in
> : order to check this. Is there an easier way within Word?
> :
> : Thanks for any help you can provide.
> :
> : George Thompson
>
>
>
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