Fonts in 2008 vs. older versions vs. Windows

[cajunrefugee]

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

I'm having a problem with my older documents' fonts not translating well in either Mac or Windows. Not to sound stilted, but really all I need is font, bold, italics and underline. Now when I open the fonts, I have to be a graphic designer with an MFA. What happened?

I'm looking for Garamond, bold, italics, and underline. Looks like I've got 4 different Garamonds according to the menu, and none of them are "Garamond" from older versions of Office. And none of these seem to translate well to a PC.

Anybody having this problem and how did they solve it?

 

[John McGhie]

Try to come down to only "one" copy of Garamond, preferably version 2.3.5
from Microsoft, and put it in your HDD/Library/Fonts/Microsoft folder.

But the problem is not the fonts, it's OS 10.5's new font mechanism, which
Office 2008 was not expecting. If you're getting the "missing spaces"
problem on the PC, that's what is causing it, and we're waiting for a patch
from Apple and/or Microsoft to fix it.

In the meantime, using the latest version of the font will help, because it
has been updated to the latest Unicode standard, and has been tweaked by
Microsoft to give results as close as possible to the PC version of the same
font.

Since you have 2008, you might like to investigate Cambria or Constantia.
The "C-series" fonts in Microsoft Office have been produced to look really
nice with modern typographic engines, and to contain a much wider range of
characters than the old fonts.

People who really know fonts tell me that they're a good job and provide
very nice-looking results.

Cheers

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

I'm having a problem with my older documents' fonts not translating well in
either Mac or Windows. Not to sound stilted, but really all I need is font,
bold, italics and underline. Now when I open the fonts, I have to be a graphic
designer with an MFA. What happened?

I'm looking for Garamond, bold, italics, and underline. Looks like I've got 4
different Garamonds according to the menu, and none of them are "Garamond"
from older versions of Office. And none of these seem to translate well to a
PC.

Anybody having this problem and how did they solve it?

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