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From: davidlu@microsoft.UUCP (David Luebbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0 --- First (and Last) Impressions
Keywords: Bugs
Message-ID: <5644@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 18:25:52 GMT
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Reply-To: davidlu@microsoft.UUCP (David Luebbert)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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>How does this affect you? It means that if you take your magnum opus to some-
>one else's machine, all your text could lose its font assignment and appear in
>Geneva (or whatever the default application font is set to). Or if that system
>uses that font number for something else, then your tome might just appear in
>something else entirely, like, say, Zapf Dingbats or Carta! The problem is its
>most insidious when you send your book off to that nice Linotronic service
>bureau to get 2450 dpi film masters at many $ a shot.

 In Word 4.0 (also Word 3.0) if you save a document in RTF format and read it
with Word on another system, font assignments will be mapped by name. Since
the RTF file encodes all of the properties stored in a Word binary file, you
can ship the RTF to the service bureau confident that they will be able to
print exactly what you sent them, provided they have loaded on their system
all the fonts you used in your document.
 I guess I was far-seeing back then. ;-)

Best regards,

Dave Luebbert
Microsoft Corp.