Microsoft KB Archive/68004

Word: Differences in How Missing Soft Font Files Are Handled

PSS ID Number: Q68004 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

5.00 5.50 6.00

MS-DOS

= SUMMARY =

There is a slight difference in how Word versions 5.00 and 5.50 handle documents formatted with download fonts that Word is not able to locate. When printing a document that uses download fonts, Word will prompt you if it is unable to locate the proper font files for one or more of the requested fonts.

Word version 5.00 will prompt you to insert a disk in drive A, skip the downloading of the font file, or cancel the print job for each font file that is not found.

When Word version 5.50 encounters the first missing font file, Word will prompt you to insert a disk containing the font file and then select retry. If you select cancel, Word will state that it was unable to download the fonts successfully, but will ask if you want to print anyway. At this point, you can choose to print their document without the soft fonts or to cancel the print job altogether.

In summary, Word 5.00 will search for each soft font file, giving you the choice to skip the downloading of the missing font file, then move on to the next file that needs to be downloaded. Word 5.50 will abort the downloading of soft fonts after the first occurrence of a missing font file.

Both Word 5.00 and 5.50 will give you the option to print the document without the downloaded soft fonts or the option to cancel the print job.

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