Desperately Seeking Meta....

[bnpelsoh]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I just purchased MetaPro OpenType from FontShop. The font does not appear at all in any Microsoft Font Menu...it works in all non-Microsoft applications. What is the deal, how do I use the font I paid a lot of $$ for???

 

[John McGhie]

Have you rebooted? Microsoft Office rebuilds its font cache from Apple OS
X's font cache each time that changes, which it does on a reboot.

OS X will rebuild, and so will Office. Two separate caches.

If that doesn't cure it: make some text in TextEdit (one paragraph...) set
it in the font you want, then save it as Word XML format.

Open the file in Word, and create a Style using "Update to match selection"
from the Toolbox.

Then you won't need to see the font, because every time you use that style,
the font will be correct.

Sorry: Due to a bug, some fonts just "don't" show up.

This is a "Naming clash" bug. If Word THINKS it has already loaded a font
with the same name, it throws the incoming one on the floor and ignores it.
Because it has mis-read the font file, it actually hasn't loaded it...

If you can figure out which font is clashing, and you do not need the other
font, then disabling it will cause MetaPro to suddenly appear.

I guess they will fix this bug eventually: make sure your coy of Word is
updated regularly and you will get the fix when they put it out.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I just purchased MetaPro OpenType from FontShop. The font does not appear at
all in any Microsoft Font Menu...it works in all non-Microsoft applications.
What is the deal, how do I use the font I paid a lot of $$ for???

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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[bnpelsoh]

I don't have another version of Meta activated, so I don't understand why there would be a "naming clash"

I have rebooted several times, and cleaned the system and font caches through Font Explorer.

I even tried to put the font directly in System/Fonts

All to no avail.

 

[John McGhie]

No, it won't be another version of "Meta". It will be a different font that
Word is confusing with Meta.

Probably the only way to find it, is to disable everything EXCEPT Meta, then
bring them back in bunches until the problem recurs.

Then you will know that it is "one of those".

Take them out again, then bring that bunch back one-by-one.

Sadly, this requires a reboot each time to purge the font cache. It's one
of those jobs you wish you had an underling to delegate it to...

I don' think that "cleaning the font caches with Font Explorer" is
sufficient to clear this. I think you have to reboot to force a full
rebuild. You could delete them, then log out and log in, but I am not sure
of the effect of that.

Cheers

I don't have another version of Meta activated, so I don't understand why
there would be a "naming clash"

I have rebooted several times, and cleaned the system and font caches through
Font Explorer.

I even tried to put the font directly in System/Fonts

All to no avail.

--

Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:[email protected]