Fonts question

[Joy]

Someone sends me a Publisher newsletter for our organization for me to
proofread. When I try to open it, I can't because apparently she uses two
fonts that I don't have, so Publisher substitutes Times New Roman (the fonts
are Optane and Angostura), then it will open. She doesn't seem to know
where they are in her newsletter (she said she just goes by the looks ? ? ).
Is there any way she can find where they are so that she can substitute
Times before she sends it to me? It said something about using TrueType
fonts being better. How can one tell which fonts are TrueType? Seems to me
they USED to have TT after the name of the font.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Have you Googled to see if you can download those fonts?

 

[Ed Bennett]

Publisher substitutes Times New Roman

Is there any way she can find where
they are so that she can substitute Times before she sends it to me?

Why would you want to do that, if Publisher does it in the end anyway?

If you have her convert the file to PDF using a free converter such as
PrimoPDF from www.primopdf.com, all the fonts will be embedded automagically
and it won't matter that you don't have the font installed on your system.

 

[Joy]

Hadn't thought of that!

Have you Googled to see if you can download those fonts?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Someone sends me a Publisher newsletter for our organization for me to
proofread. When I try to open it, I can't because apparently she uses
two fonts that I don't have, so Publisher substitutes Times New Roman
(the fonts are Optane and Angostura), then it will open. She doesn't
seem to know where they are in her newsletter (she said she just goes by
the looks ? ? ). Is there any way she can find where they are so that she
can substitute Times before she sends it to me? It said something about
using TrueType fonts being better. How can one tell which fonts are
TrueType? Seems to me they USED to have TT after the name of the font.

 

[Joy]

So she and I will be on "the same page", so to speak. I understand
different fonts can possibly change the layout.

 

[Joy]

JoAnn,

My second reply to you. I've not done this before (downloaded fonts) -
never needed to, because I have a HUGE amount of fonts that have come with
various greeting card and other programs. Is there a "safe" way to do it?
Is there a way to get just one font, not a whole lot of them? I just now
tried downloading angostura and there are 4 icons in its folder. I thought
I'd better not go farther without checking.

Have you Googled to see if you can download those fonts?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Someone sends me a Publisher newsletter for our organization for me to
proofread. When I try to open it, I can't because apparently she uses
two fonts that I don't have, so Publisher substitutes Times New Roman
(the fonts are Optane and Angostura), then it will open. She doesn't
seem to know where they are in her newsletter (she said she just goes by
the looks ? ? ). Is there any way she can find where they are so that she
can substitute Times before she sends it to me? It said something about
using TrueType fonts being better. How can one tell which fonts are
TrueType? Seems to me they USED to have TT after the name of the font.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I've downloaded many, many fonts by themselves. Since I have almost 1000
fonts, I have a *bit* of experience at this. ;-)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

JoAnn,

My second reply to you. I've not done this before (downloaded fonts) -
never needed to, because I have a HUGE amount of fonts that have come with
various greeting card and other programs. Is there a "safe" way to do it?
Is there a way to get just one font, not a whole lot of them? I just now
tried downloading angostura and there are 4 icons in its folder. I
thought I'd better not go farther without checking.

Have you Googled to see if you can download those fonts?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Someone sends me a Publisher newsletter for our organization for me to
proofread. When I try to open it, I can't because apparently she uses
two fonts that I don't have, so Publisher substitutes Times New Roman
(the fonts are Optane and Angostura), then it will open. She doesn't
seem to know where they are in her newsletter (she said she just goes by
the looks ? ? ). Is there any way she can find where they are so that
she can substitute Times before she sends it to me? It said something
about using TrueType fonts being better. How can one tell which fonts
are TrueType? Seems to me they USED to have TT after the name of the
font.

 

[Joy]

I would say!

So can you tell me how to do it?

I've downloaded many, many fonts by themselves. Since I have almost 1000
fonts, I have a *bit* of experience at this. ;-)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

JoAnn,

My second reply to you. I've not done this before (downloaded fonts) -
never needed to, because I have a HUGE amount of fonts that have come
with various greeting card and other programs. Is there a "safe" way to
do it? Is there a way to get just one font, not a whole lot of them? I
just now tried downloading angostura and there are 4 icons in its folder.
I thought I'd better not go farther without checking.

Have you Googled to see if you can download those fonts?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Someone sends me a Publisher newsletter for our organization for me to
proofread. When I try to open it, I can't because apparently she uses
two fonts that I don't have, so Publisher substitutes Times New Roman
(the fonts are Optane and Angostura), then it will open. She doesn't
seem to know where they are in her newsletter (she said she just goes
by the looks ? ? ). Is there any way she can find where they are so
that she can substitute Times before she sends it to me? It said
something about using TrueType fonts being better. How can one tell
which fonts are TrueType? Seems to me they USED to have TT after the
name of the font.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

You just find the font you want on a site and click on download. Generally
they are zip files. Do you know about zip files?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

I would say!

So can you tell me how to do it?

I've downloaded many, many fonts by themselves. Since I have almost 1000
fonts, I have a *bit* of experience at this. ;-)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

JoAnn,

My second reply to you. I've not done this before (downloaded fonts) -
never needed to, because I have a HUGE amount of fonts that have come
with various greeting card and other programs. Is there a "safe" way to
do it? Is there a way to get just one font, not a whole lot of them? I
just now tried downloading angostura and there are 4 icons in its
folder. I thought I'd better not go farther without checking.

Have you Googled to see if you can download those fonts?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Someone sends me a Publisher newsletter for our organization for me to
proofread. When I try to open it, I can't because apparently she uses
two fonts that I don't have, so Publisher substitutes Times New Roman
(the fonts are Optane and Angostura), then it will open. She doesn't
seem to know where they are in her newsletter (she said she just goes
by the looks ? ? ). Is there any way she can find where they are so
that she can substitute Times before she sends it to me? It said
something about using TrueType fonts being better. How can one tell
which fonts are TrueType? Seems to me they USED to have TT after the
name of the font.

 

[Joy]

Thank you VERY much, Don! I had googled for both of the fonts but didn't
run across this particular site; and had trouble finding one of the fonts
anyhow. This site looks wonderful!

 

[Joy]

Don, I went to that site and found the fonts I was looking for. According
to the directions on the site, I downloaded one of them (to Desktop). Then
tried dragging it to the Fonts folder, but nothing happened. Then I tried
to Copy and Paste it, but still nothing happened. Any suggestions?

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Was it a .zip file or a .ttf file?

 

[Joy]

I took another look at the font on the desktop (it wasn't a .zip), and found
a setting that said it was blocked, and I could click on Unblock. That
solved it!

Was it a .zip file or a .ttf file?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Don, I went to that site and found the fonts I was looking for.
According to the directions on the site, I downloaded one of them (to
Desktop). Then tried dragging it to the Fonts folder, but nothing
happened. Then I tried to Copy and Paste it, but still nothing happened.
Any suggestions?

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Yippee. Those little things can really hang us up, can't they?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

I took another look at the font on the desktop (it wasn't a .zip), and
found a setting that said it was blocked, and I could click on Unblock.
That solved it!

Was it a .zip file or a .ttf file?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Don, I went to that site and found the fonts I was looking for.
According to the directions on the site, I downloaded one of them (to
Desktop). Then tried dragging it to the Fonts folder, but nothing
happened. Then I tried to Copy and Paste it, but still nothing
happened. Any suggestions?

You be welcome.


--
Don
"May your shadow be found in happy places." (Native North American)


Thank you VERY much, Don! I had googled for both of the fonts but
didn't run across this particular site; and had trouble finding one of
the fonts anyhow. This site looks wonderful!

If you are still looking for those two fonts you can get them here:

http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html

Note there may be more than one file for the particular font, i.e.,
regular, italic, bold etc.

good luck


--
Don
"May your shadow be found in happy places." (Native North American)


Someone sends me a Publisher newsletter for our organization for me
to proofread. When I try to open it, I can't because apparently she
uses two fonts that I don't have, so Publisher substitutes Times New
Roman (the fonts are Optane and Angostura), then it will open. She
doesn't seem to know where they are in her newsletter (she said she
just goes by the looks ? ? ). Is there any way she can find where
they are so that she can substitute Times before she sends it to me?
It said something about using TrueType fonts being better. How can
one tell which fonts are TrueType? Seems to me they USED to have TT
after the name of the font.