On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 17:10 -0400, Jim Allan wrote: > Sladi wrote: > > I'm confused about these fonts. Sometimes we get documents in Word > > (97/XP) format and the text is in Times New Roman W1 for example. > > The problem is it's not displayed well in Writer. Is this a bug? I > > resaved the file on our own PC in Word 2003 and after that Writer > > displayed it fine. Word always displayed it fine. > > I've been using OpenOffice.org (mostly under Windows) both at work and > at home for several years now and have never noticed this. We get a lot > of files in Microsoft doc format and usually they appear perfectly. I > have not noticed any font problem. Nor have I heard of this problem with > fonts elsewhere. > > Do you have “Times New Roman W1” on your own system? If not, [snip]
Apparently, fonts with names ending in "(W1)" are fonts that only exist in some printers. These fonts become available in MS Word (and posibly other programs) when the printer is selected as the default printer. On screen, some other font is always substituted. If the printer is correctly installed, the OS will be able to chose a substitute with identical metrics. In some cases, a computer may happen to have - and choose - a font with sufficiently similar metrics, that the problem is not perceived. It seems like a very bad idea to use such fonts for anything serious other than possibly the *final* printout. In a document exchange and collaboration scenario, it could only work if all participants had the same kind of printer installed and set as default printer. Convince your partners to avoid using those fonts. All I found on W1 fonts on the internet was from the 1990s. I guess the whole idea is obsolete today. -Enrique --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
