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From: hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Sanjay Aiyagari)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: WFW & ATM -- where are my fonts?
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.165626.3845@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 16:56:26 EDT
References: <1384@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> <2832@travis.csd.harris.com> <1991Apr3.02
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In article <1991Apr3.024006.25683@cs.mcgill.ca>,
gerardis@cs.mcgill.ca (Tony GERARDIS) writes:

> In article <2832@travis.csd.harris.com> leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com
> (Leo Hinds) writes:
>>In article <1384@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> parker@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (James Parker)
>>writes:
>>>Catch: Word for Windows still won't recognize ALL of the fonts.  Out of
>>>107 fonts, WFW knows 46.
>>
>>Have you by any chance taken into account that if win.ini say's it has
>>"softfonts=107", the number of font FAMILIES is actually less than that.
>>*IF* all the cica fonts covered the Roman/italic/bold/bold_italic faces for
>>each font family, w4w should only list 107/4=26.75 different font names.
>
>      I had the same problem with WFW after installing additional fonts!
>      However my solution was simple, Just delete the winword.ini file
>      from your winword directory, and then start up WFW. It should ask
>      you for your name again and then you might have to reset all your
>      defaults (I don't bother since the defaults are all fine for me)
>      however you will have all the fonts available!

Another way to do it (mentioned in the ATM manual) is to go to Printer Setup
(under the File menu of Word for Windows, NOT in Control Panel), select your
printer and choose OK.  This will cause Word for Windows to update its internal
font list and won't require you to lose all your default settings.

Sanjay Aiyagari (hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu)