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From: moku@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Mark Francillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word 3.01 and fonts (new episode)
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Date: Sun, 18-Oct-87 23:47:13 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 18 23:47:13 1987
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In article <21331@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> larus@paris.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (James Larus) writes:
>This is an example of a program being too smart for its own good.  MS Word
>does font substitution.  If you entered a document on a machine without a
>Laserwriter, it uses fonts for the Imagewriter.  You need to install a
>Laserwriter driver on your first machine and use Chooser to select it before
>entering font information.  My guess is that what you think is Symbol is
>actually the Imagewriter equivalent.  Details about this "feature" may be in
>the documentation, but I have never found them and most people at Microsoft
>had no clue as to this problem (yes, I finally spoke with a programmer who
>told me what was happening).
>
>/Jim


I don't know, this suggests some things to play around with, but I don't
really see how it covers the case.  I create a file on one machine in two
LW fonts.  When I print it from a second machine, Times comes out ok, but
Symbol's changed into something else.  Seems to me that on your account
either I've got the LW Chosen when I create the file, which in fact I
almost always do, since I want to see what the final result's going to look
like, and then both fonts should come out right; or else I don't, and
then both should come out transformed.

   Mark