some installed fonts not available in Office apps

[Lin McDowell]

I have a large document prepared in Word 2002 on a PC ready to go to the
printer (comapny, not machine). The printer has said that I can not apply
styles to any fonts I use, but instead must use the true font. The doc is in
Times New Roman, which is fine, but throughout I want to italicize words for
emphasis. Although Times New Roman Italic is installed in my font foler, it
is not available in any of my Office apps. I've also noticed that its
representative icon in the fonts folder is an "O" as opposed to the "TT" I'm
used to seeing for True Type fonts, although its properties indicate it is a
True Type font. In case this was a driver issue, I tried setting each of the
three (different) printers in my house as the default printer and then
opening the document each time to see if the italic font was available, but
no luck. Any help? Thanks.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

O is OpenType. From http://store.adobe.com/type/opentype/main.html
"The OpenType format is an extension of the TrueType SFNT format that also
can support Adobe® PostScript® font data and new typographic features.
OpenType fonts containing PostScript data, such as those in the Adobe Type
Library, have an .otf suffix in the font file name, while TrueType-based
OpenType fonts have a .ttf file name suffix.
"OpenType fonts can include an expanded character set and layout features,
providing broader linguistic support and more precise typographic control.
Feature-rich Adobe OpenType fonts can be distinguished by the word "Pro,"
which is part of the font name and appears in application font menus.
OpenType fonts can be installed and used alongside PostScript Type 1 and
TrueType fonts."


I don't understand why your printer can't handle something as simple as
italicized font. Seems like a pretty basic task. Have you tried working with
him? Perhaps he is misphrasing something? Perhaps you misunderstood
something?

 

[Lin McDowell]

Unfortunately, I didn't misunderstand. In this printer's guidelines, as with
other printers that I researched, it was indicated that if you apply
stylization fo some fonts, it generally wil not work correctly when sent to
an imagesetter. I am sending them the file to them as a PDF, and had thought
that that would eliminate any problems. However, I will see if I can work
with them and come up with a solution. Thanks.

O is OpenType. From http://store.adobe.com/type/opentype/main.html
"The OpenType format is an extension of the TrueType SFNT format that also
can support Adobe® PostScript® font data and new typographic features.
OpenType fonts containing PostScript data, such as those in the Adobe Type
Library, have an .otf suffix in the font file name, while TrueType-based
OpenType fonts have a .ttf file name suffix.
"OpenType fonts can include an expanded character set and layout features,
providing broader linguistic support and more precise typographic control.
Feature-rich Adobe OpenType fonts can be distinguished by the word "Pro,"
which is part of the font name and appears in application font menus.
OpenType fonts can be installed and used alongside PostScript Type 1 and
TrueType fonts."


I don't understand why your printer can't handle something as simple as
italicized font. Seems like a pretty basic task. Have you tried working with
him? Perhaps he is misphrasing something? Perhaps you misunderstood
something?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

I have a large document prepared in Word 2002 on a PC ready to go to the
printer (comapny, not machine). The printer has said that I can not apply
styles to any fonts I use, but instead must use the true font. The doc is
in
Times New Roman, which is fine, but throughout I want to italicize words
for
emphasis. Although Times New Roman Italic is installed in my font foler,
it
is not available in any of my Office apps. I've also noticed that its
representative icon in the fonts folder is an "O" as opposed to the "TT"
I'm
used to seeing for True Type fonts, although its properties indicate it is
a
True Type font. In case this was a driver issue, I tried setting each of
the
three (different) printers in my house as the default printer and then
opening the document each time to see if the italic font was available,
but
no luck. Any help? Thanks.

 

[TedMi]

Lin: If you have an italic font installed in your Fonts folder, then it *is*
available to Office apps, even though it's now shown on the font dropdown.
Just choose the base font name and apply italic formatting - that will
utilize the separate italic font file, and not merely incline each letter. In
many fonts you can tell by looking at the lower-case "a" - in a true italic
font it will have a different shape than in the plain.

 

[Lin McDowell]

Ted, this makes abundant sense, and is what a friend of mine was surmising.
Thanks.