symbol font

[john koland]

I hope someone can help me, as I have a project deadline
I'm working on. I recently got a Mac G5 with OS 10.1.5 and
I just found that I can't print pages from Mac-WORD that
have the Symbol font in them. The printer is networked by
IP address (HP 4000N) and others with Macs can print MY
documents with Symbol font on it without any problems!

Any clues?????????

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

That sounds to me as though:

A) Symbol font is not resident in the printer

B) The other machines are set to download fonts if needed

C) Your machine is not...

Cheers

I hope someone can help me, as I have a project deadline
I'm working on. I recently got a Mac G5 with OS 10.1.5 and
I just found that I can't print pages from Mac-WORD that
have the Symbol font in them. The printer is networked by
IP address (HP 4000N) and others with Macs can print MY
documents with Symbol font on it without any problems!

Any clues?????????

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[john koland]

Thanks much Mr. McGhie! But to ask another stupid
question, just how does one set their machine to download
fonts? I do not see any such option in the OS-X printer
dialogs nor in compatibility settings in the word preferences?

Still need to solve problem, as I at my deadline resorted
to moving my document to a PC to print. Not something I
like to admit!

John

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

I wish I knew. Everyone who knows me knows I know very little about
printing on the Mac, and I can't find the option either. It should be an
option on your printer driver, but I use IP printing, so these options do
not exist on my machine.

I was fervently hoping that someone who does know this well would chime in
on this thread. Just as an afterthought, you may want to check in
Word>Preferences>Compatibility and check Font Substitution. If there's a
strange setting in there, that would do it. But that would affect only the
current document.

Sorry

Thanks much Mr. McGhie! But to ask another stupid
question, just how does one set their machine to download
fonts? I do not see any such option in the OS-X printer
dialogs nor in compatibility settings in the word preferences?

Still need to solve problem, as I at my deadline resorted
to moving my document to a PC to print. Not something I
like to admit!

John

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Please respond only to the newsgroup to preserve the thread.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer,
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[john koland]

Thanks again, Mr. McGhie. I can happily say, that I have
FINALLY found a solution to my problem with the SYMBOL font
in my Mac G5 OS X Word documents not being printed on my
HP4000.

The solution was to use a different version of the Symbol
font file. I had attempted to UPGRADE from my Symbol font
file version 3.6, but could only find at www.highfonts.com
an 8-year old PC version, which I converted as per their
instructions to a Mac font. I gave it a .dfont extension,
installed in the library/fonts folder, restarted the
machine, and the new symbol font (symbol regular)
miraculously appeared in the Word font menu. Even more
miraculously, I can print my documents with symbols!
Thanks for your help.
John