Suzanne S. Barnhill
2011-09-22 16:10:47 UTC
There do seem to be some embedding issues in Word 2010. I worked with a user
who was having a problem with a certain font just plain not being embedded
in a Word 2010 .docx even though embedding had been ordered. The font in
question was Kabel Book BT, and it wasn't just specific characters but the
entire font that wasn't embedding properly (Century Gothic was being
substituted).
One thing you can check on is font substitution. The button is in the "Show
document content" section of File | Options | Advanced.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
who was having a problem with a certain font just plain not being embedded
in a Word 2010 .docx even though embedding had been ordered. The font in
question was Kabel Book BT, and it wasn't just specific characters but the
entire font that wasn't embedding properly (Century Gothic was being
substituted).
One thing you can check on is font substitution. The button is in the "Show
document content" section of File | Options | Advanced.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
We're having trouble reading some characters in Word 2003 documents
that someone else sends to us; they show up as boxes. The glyphs for
the Unicode code points in question aren't included in "standard"
fonts, but are in fonts we don't have installed (we're working on
that, but we're going to see *lots* of different fonts over the course
of a project). I can see the characters if I select the boxes and
assign them to an appropriate font we do have installed, but that's a
pain--there may be 20-50 of these boxes in any given doc. And I can't
use these other fonts for the entire doc, so I have to fix the problem
box-by-box.
The creators of these documents claim that they have embedded the
special fonts into the doc (not sure if they're embedding just the
code points in question, or the entire font, but that shouldn't
matter). Nevertheless, at our end the code points show up as boxes.
We're using Word2010; not sure what version the creators are using.
Is there any way to tell from the doc whether the fonts have been
embedded? (besides the fact that the characters don't show up!) That
would at least tell us whether the problem is at their end (like
they're forgetting to embed the font) or at our end (perhaps Word2010
has an incompatibility with whatever version they're using). I can
see how to embed a font in the File | Save dialog, but I don't see
anything in the document properties that would tell me whether this
has (or has not) been done.
And yes, we have suggested they send us PDFs instead.
Mike Maxwell
that someone else sends to us; they show up as boxes. The glyphs for
the Unicode code points in question aren't included in "standard"
fonts, but are in fonts we don't have installed (we're working on
that, but we're going to see *lots* of different fonts over the course
of a project). I can see the characters if I select the boxes and
assign them to an appropriate font we do have installed, but that's a
pain--there may be 20-50 of these boxes in any given doc. And I can't
use these other fonts for the entire doc, so I have to fix the problem
box-by-box.
The creators of these documents claim that they have embedded the
special fonts into the doc (not sure if they're embedding just the
code points in question, or the entire font, but that shouldn't
matter). Nevertheless, at our end the code points show up as boxes.
We're using Word2010; not sure what version the creators are using.
Is there any way to tell from the doc whether the fonts have been
embedded? (besides the fact that the characters don't show up!) That
would at least tell us whether the problem is at their end (like
they're forgetting to embed the font) or at our end (perhaps Word2010
has an incompatibility with whatever version they're using). I can
see how to embed a font in the File | Save dialog, but I don't see
anything in the document properties that would tell me whether this
has (or has not) been done.
And yes, we have suggested they send us PDFs instead.
Mike Maxwell