Microsoft KB Archive/320477

= FP2002: Custom Fonts Display as Courier or Arial in Normal View =

Article ID: 320477

Article Last Modified on 2/1/2007

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APPLIES TO

 Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Standard Edition, when used with:  Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition

 Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition

 Microsoft Windows 95 

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This article was previously published under Q320477

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SYMPTOMS
When you use a third-party font in a Web page that you create, in normal view, the font does not display as expected, but displays instead in Courier or Arial font. You may experience this issue with fonts that include, but are not limited to the following:

Abadi MT Condensed Light: The Monotype Corporation

AbileneFLF

Alexei Copperplate ITC: Corel Corporation

Amazone BT: Bitstream, Inc.

American Typewriter Medium BT: Bitstream, Inc.

Aeolus TTF

Arial Rounded MT Bold

Aurora Condensed BT: Bitstream, Inc.

Bank Gothic Medium BT: Bitstream, Inc.

Bazooka

BD Jurassic: Streetwise

BD Keyboard: Streetwise

BD Springer: Atech Software

Blackletter 686 BT: Bitstream, Inc.

Boulder Regular: Altsys Fontographer 3.5

Brushscript MT

Cheap Fire: Corel Draw 4

Chisel D: URW Software

Copperplate Gothic Bold

Copperplate Gothic Light

Denmark

Dom Casual: Adobe Corporation

Lucida Handwriting

Lucida Sans: Adobe Corporation

Market

Victorian Inline Shaded LET Plain:1.0: Esselte Letraset Ltd.

Victorian LET Plain:1.0: Esselte Letraset Ltd.

Wanted Poster: WSI Font Collection

Westminster

Wild West: WSI Font Collection

Woodcut: Generated by Metamorphosis Pro 2.01

Zapf Humanist 601 BT: Bitstream, Inc.

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WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, develop the page in the font that you want to use. To complete visual tests, click Preview in Browser on the File menu, instead of normal view. When a user visits your Web site, the pages will display correctly if the font that you used is installed on the user's computer, or if you used an embedded font.

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STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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MORE INFORMATION
The third-party products that are discussed in this article are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of these products.

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