Font Family problem on VISTA

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Font Family problem on VISTA

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I have prepared a font family of Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic. It works on OSX 10.6.8 but not on VISTA (Home Premium SP2).
On VISTA a word processor will display the Regular ok but for the Bold it displays a faux-Bold based on the medium. Same with the
others. I put a different deliberate mistake into each font. They show the deliberate mistake that is in the Regular.

Any ideas?
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Re: Font Family problem on VISTA

Post by MikeW »

Hi Mike,

No idea beyond word processors generally being dumb things. What word processor? Are the Mac naming fields filled in? If so, is the normal naming fields agree, the italic/bold/bold italic check boxes checked as appropriate? Family names consistent? That sort of thing?

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Re: Font Family problem on VISTA

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MikeW

The word processor I use on the PC is OpenOffice and the IMac I use TextEdit.

For the Bold font in the Font Properties window on the Identification tab I have checked Bold :-)

I' m stumped on this.

Mike

I opened the .odt file with Word and it complained the file was corrupt but nevertheless it was displayed
and saved as a .docx. The font family problem is the same with word
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Re: Font Family problem on VISTA

Post by MikeW »

Hi Mike,

Would you be willing to send me a private message with a link to the FC project files?

I am using Windows 10, but in my experience if Word or LibreOffice / OpenOffice doesn't like them on an earlier OS it doesn't on newer ones either.

Mike
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Re: Font Family problem on VISTA

Post by Bhikkhu Pesala »

Mike Thompson wrote:For the Bold font in the Font Properties window on the Identification tab I have checked Bold :-)
What is the weight set to on the Weight drop down? 700 bold is the usual setting.
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Re: Font Family problem on VISTA

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Bhikkhu
Yes that fixed the problem. Thanks
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