Microsoft KB Archive/122364

Some Fonts Do Not Take Italic or Bold Formatting

PSS ID Number: Q122364 Article last modified on 05-17-1998

windows:3.0,4.0,4.0a,4.0c

WINDOWS

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The information in this article applies to:

 == Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, versions 3.0, 4.0, 4.0a, 4.0c == 

= SUMMARY =

Some TrueType fonts in PowerPoint 3.0 do not have bold or italic formatting. If you apply bold or italic formatting to these fonts, the fonts will not appear to be changed. The font will display (and thus print) as if those formatting attributes were never applied. This can make presentations created in PowerPoint 4.0 and saved in PowerPoint 3.0 format look different when viewed in PowerPoint 3.0.

= MORE INFORMATION =

PowerPoint 3.0 is much stricter about presenting a WYSIWYG appearance than PowerPoint 4.0. If a font does not have support for an attribute (no bold, italic, or bold-italic TrueType font files), then PowerPoint 3.0 will not try to render that attribute even though Windows can synthesize it.

PowerPoint 4.0 does not have this limit. It will call the appropriate Windows functions to synthesize attributes that are not directly supported by the font.

Additional query words: 3.00 4.00 4.00a 4.00c weight bold-italic winppt 4.00a 4.00c italicize italicizing type style typestyle ====================================================================== Keywords : kbdisplay kbprint kbFont Version : windows:3.0,4.0,4.0a,4.0c Platform : WINDOWS Hardware : x86 Issue type : kbinfo ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998.