Office XP: Incorrect permissions on fonts

[Robert Schmidli]

We have upgraded from Office 97 to Office XP. Most of the fonts are not
available when we log in as an unpriviledged user, and most of the text in
our documents and spreadsheets is not visible. I have been able to fix some
of these problems by making the fonts readable by an unpriviledged user (ie
"users" group). At present these fonts are only readable by Administrators.
There are hundreds of fonts on our system and it is very tedious to change
them on each file. Is there an easy way of changing the permissions of
these fonts (ie DOS command or VB Script)?

Thanks in advance,
Robert.

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

We have upgraded from Office 97 to Office XP. Most of the fonts are not
available when we log in as an unpriviledged user, and most of the text in
our documents and spreadsheets is not visible. I have been able to fix some
of these problems by making the fonts readable by an unpriviledged user (ie
"users" group). At present these fonts are only readable by Administrators.
There are hundreds of fonts on our system and it is very tedious to change
them on each file. Is there an easy way of changing the permissions of
these fonts (ie DOS command or VB Script)?

Firstly have your tried simply applying the permissions changes to the
entire Fonts folder?
Secondly, are you using a real print driver or just the generic text driver
(which cannot use TrueType fonts)?

 

[Robert S]

Thanks.

The "Fonts" directory is accessible to "Everybody". I therefore don't think
that changing the permissions on the folder would change the permissions on
all of the contents. I'd sooner not mess with the system permissions unless
I'm sure what I'm doing!

I tried installing an updated driver specifically for our printer. No
difference.

Is there a simple way of altering permissions in an entire folder (a la
chmod +w *.TTF in Linux)?

Robert.