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Resolved Where are the Fonts?

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  1. David Flory
    David Flory
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  3. Sunday, 2 February 2020 17:24 PM UTC

I have a block of datawindows that are formatted as IRS forms, primary among which is a nasty little piece of work known as the partnership Schedule K-1.  This schedule requires the use of the font Arial Narrow at 7pts.

The datawindows I ported over from PB 11.5 into PB 2019 Trial on a different machine do not show the SLE's formatted in this font.  I understand this as this font is not present on this machine when I bring up Fonts on the Control Panel.  However:

1. A TT font with this name shows on the drop down list for fonts in the DW Builder.

2. In MS Word from Office 365, this font is available and works very well at 7pts.  The same is not true of Excel.  Conclusion: Word is pulling this from some secret stash somewhere.  Figure it's on my machine somewhere that Excel doesn't know about (?)

To the question(s):

Why is PB showing this font on the drop down font list?  There's a lot of stuff there that isn't on the machine...

If Word really does have a secret font stash, is there any way to crack it for PB?

 

As a tax accountant, I deal with a lot of fine print and I figure I'm going to need this font one of these days...

Thanks for the help,

Dave

 

 

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David Flory
David Flory Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 4 February 2020 00:30 AM UTC
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  3. # 1

Thanks for all your comments, folks.   The inconsistencies I had concerned me that all was not well with Windows.  So I went on down to have ye olde Geek Squad to take a look.

Everything in the font directories looked OK.  We never did find out where/how Word and to some extent Excel were finding that Arial Narrow font.  However, it looked like the font could be installed/reinstalled without too much concern that any damage to existing installed fonts would happen.  Made sure we only used the Arial Narrow .TTF's that I pulled off the PB 11.5 machine.

All went well.  Now know a lot more about fonts.  Still don't know where those drop downs with all those uninstalled fonts come from...

Calling this one resolved.

Thanks again.

Dave

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Roland Smith
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  1. Sunday, 2 February 2020 23:01 PM UTC
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  3. # 2

When you copy font files into C:\Windows\Fonts, Windows automatically registers them.

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
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  1. Sunday, 2 February 2020 21:13 PM UTC
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  3. # 3

Hi David;

1) migrating any PB to PB version never changes the DWO fonts.

2) MS-Windows stores the installed fonts in the registry. If MS-Office can see them from there, so can PB.

3) The DWO rendering of any font is determined by the default printer. If your current default printer lacks support for the selected font, the DWO will try & synthesize one (which could be your issue). Try changing the default printer or if a real printer is not defined in you MS-Windows, try installing one.

HTH

Regards ... Chris

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mike S
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  1. Sunday, 2 February 2020 18:50 PM UTC
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"I understand this as this font is not present on this machine when I bring up Fonts on the Control Panel"

do you see arial listed in control panel?  If so, that is the font family.  so you need to click on that to expand out the font list.

 

It sounds like your issue is that the dws from your old PB version had their fonts changed to something new?  Is that what you are saying happened?  What font did it change to?

 

 

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