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Subject:Re: NT font problems From:David Warren <David -dot- Warren -at- NEXTEL -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 8 Jun 1998 13:54:19 -0400
My guess is that the font was from a Macintosh character set that got
converted. Fonts designed for dtp tend to have the Mac in mind as a
primary market, since that is what most of us write and especially
publish on. Such fonts tend to more thoroughly exploit the character
set on the Mac, and therefore puzzle the Wintel software upon
conversion. There ARE pointing hand symbols available in both TrueType
and Postscript...they just take a little more work. (Sorry I don't
have the time to hunt down more precise information....)
David T. Warren
Publications Manager, Nextel Communications ESD
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Subject: NT font problems
Author: Sandy Dryer <sdryer -at- SCTCORP -dot- COM> at INTERNET
Date: 6/8/98 12:02 PM
...
That is, all except one picture font, with a symbol of a little pointing
hand, that we were using in an autotext (I can't tell you now whether it
was Wingdings or Zapf Dingbats, because now when I look at our old
documents, even on a 95 machine, it stubbornly insists that it's Arial).
The hand was replaced everywhere with a little symbol looking like a piece
of paper with writing on it.
...
Sandy
