Unicode fonts in Word 2004 and Tiger

[Jeff Dean]

I have upgraded my system to Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" over the weekend,
and have been using it long enough now to see a consistent issue
arising. I use OpenType and other Unicode fonts rather heavily (I'm a
book typesetter), and they are working fine in InDesign. But Word 2004
(11.1.0) has stopped handling them properly: instead of giving the real
italic and bold fonts, it slopes or darkens the regular font. This
isn't just a display issue - it stays like this when printed or sent to
PDF. Anyone know what's going on, or what I can do about it?

TIA, Jeff

 

[nockely]

Hi, I have no solution I'm afraid but wanted to post to say that I am
encountering this problem too, with Word vX (10.1.6). A workaround at
the moment is to use the respective Bold or Italic fonts within the
font menu itself. But this is frustrating and certainly no use for all
my existing documents.

Cheers,

Nick

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hi, I have no solution I'm afraid but wanted to post to say that I am
encountering this problem too, with Word vX (10.1.6). A workaround at
the moment is to use the respective Bold or Italic fonts within the
font menu itself. But this is frustrating and certainly no use for all
my existing documents.

Please post back if you find a fix. I have Word 10.1.6 on OS X10.3.9
and have just confirmed that both emphasis style and cmd-I use the
proper variations of each font.

I just ordered Tiger. It will either stay in the box or I'll ditch Word
forever.

I'll ask on some Mac groups and post back here. This is ugly.

Google finds a Macintouch article reporting the same fault as you do.

 

[DrChrisHeard]

I am having the same problem. I wrote a couple of macros to help me
with specific fonts, but this an unsatisfactory workaround that has to
be applied after the fact. I get this problem ONLY in Office 2004
products ... not in TextEdit, or any Adobe or Macromedia products.