Font Problem in Pub 2003--Wide fonts

[Dave Block]

Interesting problem. This problem only exists for me in Publisher 2003, not
in Pub 2000.

When I refer to "wide" fonts, I am referring to a .TTF font that is "wide"
or "long horizontally". Imagine a Wingding.ttf character that displays, for
example, a "One Way" road sign. Fonts that are rectangular and wide.

Now imagine several of these fonts used in a sentence. The problem is that
these wide fonts overlap each other, as if the kerning or spacing were
"condensed". All of these fonts lie on top of each other. Other fonts, such
as Arial, are fine.

I actually have to convert Pub 2003 publications back to Pub 2000 to display
these fonts correctly. Does anyone have any ideas? Could there be a fix
somewhere, perhaps a download or something?

Dave Block
Amityville, NY

 

[Mary Sauer]

Have you high-lighted your text and looked at the Character Spacing in the
Format menu? If you open the measurement toolbar can you manually change the
stacking? Try as I may I cannot duplicate this.

 

[Dave Block]

Mary,

Thanks for replying, and yes, all of the basics (such as Format, Character
Spacing) have been tried, to no avail. Strange how the problem, when
duplicated, only exists in Pub 2003 and not in Pub 2000.

Perhaps the problem lies in the font attributes and not in Publisher? But
then why would it display correctly in Pub 2000?

Thanks for the reply and if anyone else out there has any other ideas,
please let me know.

Dave Block

 

[John Inzer]

Mary,

Thanks for replying, and yes, all of the basics (such as Format,
Character Spacing) have been tried, to no avail. Strange how the
problem, when duplicated, only exists in Pub 2003 and not in Pub 2000.

Perhaps the problem lies in the font attributes and not in Publisher?
But then why would it display correctly in Pub 2000?

Thanks for the reply and if anyone else out there has any other ideas,
please let me know.

Dave Block

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Might be worth a try to reduce your
Graphics Hardware Acceleration.

If that improves the issue...you need
to update your video driver.

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John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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