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From: kos@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0 and truetype fonts
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 02:03:47 GMT

In article <30862@hydra.gatech.EDU>, ccastjs@prism.gatech.EDU (The Amazing Jim Stembridge                                say no more, say no more....) writes:
>Hi, I am currently running MS Word 4.0 with system 7. I have all the 
>truetype fonts installed that came with sys7. Helvetica being one of
>them. The problem I have is that before converting to sys7, I had a
>document in word with helvetica. I had it all nice and neat. Well,
>I just recently opened it in sys7 and the font looked a little 
>different. When I printed it out, it was the same font only the letters
>were all real closely spaced together making the formatting of the
>file totally screwed up. Any comments or solutions? I haven't tried
>taking the truetype font out of the system yet. Thanks for your help.
>Jim

I had a similar problem with my favorite display font, Geneva 10.  The advice I
received was to load the bitmapped version anyway.  It'll still print in True-
Type, but the display will be like the old one.

Sure enough, it worked.  So reload the old size and all should be well again.
Bob Kosovsky