On 2 Apr 2010 at 15:33, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:56 PM, David W. Fenton > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > One thing that could help is embeding your fonts. This makes the > > file uneditable, but also insures the same fonts are used on the > > target PC as on yours. It doesn't fix the graphics in place, but it > > will mean there's less chance for fonts to change the layout of the > > rest of the document in a way that would cause the graphics to shift > > about. > > How do you embed a font into a Word document? I know you have that > option for a PDF.
It's in the SAVE AS options. I just tested it in Word 2007, and as with so many things in Office 2007, harder to find than in previous versions. I do everything by keyboard, and I hit Alt-F then A, I get the Save As dialog (if you're doing it by mouse with the ribbon, it takes more steps, like almost everything involving the ribbon that's not something MS decided you would be doing often enough to make easy). On the lower left is a TOOLS dropdown (one of the stupid combo command button/dropdown lists that doesn't do anything when you click the button, so it should be just a plain dropdown; GRRRR), and if you choose SAVE OPTIONS, at the bottom of the resulting dialog in the PRESERVE FIDELITY... category is EMBED FONTS. > A friend off list suggested "2007 uses a format called docx that > allows collaboration and markups. Try saving as an older style Word > document, rather than docx (which is the default)." I had never > thought of that! There really shouldn't be any difference between the results. DOCX is just an XML encoding of the same information as in the binary DOC file, so there really oughtn't be any formatting changes from using that file encoding. But it's a factor that you might want to eliminate from the process (since if somebody is using an older version of Word, you'll be better off with DOC format, which is native, as opposed to DOCX, which has to be converted with the add-on DOCX file filter, which may not create identical results on older versions of Word). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
