- David Flory
- PowerBuilder
- Sunday, 2 February 2020 05:24 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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