euro font substitution

[EdT]

The euro has been in business for ten years now. It is now part of every
professional font, including a hundred or two installed on my system.

Today Publisher 2003 tells me it is not part of the Arial font (!) and that
I should indicate a substitute. But Publisher rejects all proposals and
leaves me with the wretched Times Roman version. Could someone tell me what's
up and how to fix it?

 

[Mary Sauer]

The euro symbol works for me in Arial and Publisher 2003... Hold alt+0128. Did
you open >Insert >Symbol, scroll down to currency symbols?
Support for the new Euro currency symbol in Office
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188081/en-us

 

[EdT]

Throughout those ten years I've had € staring up at me from the keyboard. No
problem typing the character. What I object to is having to choose some other
font when the euro is present in the font I have installed and wish to use.

As it happens, Arial Unicode *is* accepted by Publisher as a substitute, and
as it happens, Arial was the exotic font I was using. But it wouldn't do me
much good if my composition were, say, Rockwell or Ravie...

 

[Mary Sauer]

If your composition were Ravie or Rockwell and you inserted the euro symbol it
would be the Times New Roman symbol; not Arial Unicode. It would be same for any
font that does not have the full set of symbols. Look here at the Ravie font,
http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/detail.htm?pid=409439

And Rockwell
http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/Deta...id=0&page_id=40867&query=ROCKWELL&SCOPE=Fonts

 

[Ed Bennett]

The euro has been in business for ten years now. It is now part of every
professional font, including a hundred or two installed on my system.

Today Publisher 2003 tells me it is not part of the Arial font (!) and that
I should indicate a substitute. But Publisher rejects all proposals and
leaves me with the wretched Times Roman version. Could someone tell me what's
up and how to fix it?

Sounds like you've accidentally embedded and subsetted the Arial font.
Try looking at the Font Embedding options and checking whether that's
got turned on somehow.

(I'm presuming that the € still works in all your other applications?)