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Mike MacSween
Mmmm. I've developed an application in Access that does a lot of mail merge.
A couple of days ago the clients rang to say one of the things isn't
printing right. I was at their site today.
Sure enough Kunstler seems to have gone astray. I think it's a font that is
installed as part of Office 2000 yes? In fact the drop down font list in
Word, and the Windows/fonts directory both seem pretty skimpy. I've not
touched these machines, Office wise. All that has happened in the last few
weeks is that a network engineer has overhauled their Win 2K network. Set
up Active Directory, given the users new usernames and logons (clue here?)
and so on. I called him. He hasn't touched Office, he says, and all he did
to the clients OS was update them to service pack 4 (their on Win 2K, server
and workstations). Anybody got any clues? Fonts aren't user specific are
they? I mean you can't have a different set of fonts for different users? I
know the Office install was Sr1 (last time I looked). I don't intend to
install anything past that, because of the security restrictions on Outlook
2000 past Sr1. There's been a new network printer installed, HP4100dtn I
think.
So I started to install Kunstler.ttf one by one on each machine (the rest of
the fonts the app uses are pretty standard TNR etc.). One machine wouldn't
let me. Whenever I tried, with 'copy to fonts folder selected' it would
claim that kunstler.ttf was being used by Windows and couldn't be
overwritten. There are any open docs or anything I can see. What's even more
bizarre is that kunstler.ttf wasnt' actually in the fonts directory, or
anywhere else on the hard disk. It looks like some sort of corruption to me,
anybody know if there is some sort of regedit I need to do. I managed to
install kunstler by putting it in a different directory to the default fonts
one, which is obviously far from ideal.
Any clues gratefully received. I can make it work, but it's a bit of a
worry.
Yours, Mike MacSween
A couple of days ago the clients rang to say one of the things isn't
printing right. I was at their site today.
Sure enough Kunstler seems to have gone astray. I think it's a font that is
installed as part of Office 2000 yes? In fact the drop down font list in
Word, and the Windows/fonts directory both seem pretty skimpy. I've not
touched these machines, Office wise. All that has happened in the last few
weeks is that a network engineer has overhauled their Win 2K network. Set
up Active Directory, given the users new usernames and logons (clue here?)
and so on. I called him. He hasn't touched Office, he says, and all he did
to the clients OS was update them to service pack 4 (their on Win 2K, server
and workstations). Anybody got any clues? Fonts aren't user specific are
they? I mean you can't have a different set of fonts for different users? I
know the Office install was Sr1 (last time I looked). I don't intend to
install anything past that, because of the security restrictions on Outlook
2000 past Sr1. There's been a new network printer installed, HP4100dtn I
think.
So I started to install Kunstler.ttf one by one on each machine (the rest of
the fonts the app uses are pretty standard TNR etc.). One machine wouldn't
let me. Whenever I tried, with 'copy to fonts folder selected' it would
claim that kunstler.ttf was being used by Windows and couldn't be
overwritten. There are any open docs or anything I can see. What's even more
bizarre is that kunstler.ttf wasnt' actually in the fonts directory, or
anywhere else on the hard disk. It looks like some sort of corruption to me,
anybody know if there is some sort of regedit I need to do. I managed to
install kunstler by putting it in a different directory to the default fonts
one, which is obviously far from ideal.
Any clues gratefully received. I can make it work, but it's a bit of a
worry.
Yours, Mike MacSween