Embedded Fonts - Word 2000

[DKTaber]

I've been producing reports for clients for several years where I check "Embed Fonts" under Options/Save because I use some fonts that don't exist on most clients' computers. All of the embedded fonts are TT (True Type).

I recently had to reformat my HD and reinstall everything. I forgot about reinstalling the extra fonts, and it revealed something quite unexpected. I opened an old document that was supposed to contain the embedded fonts, and a font that I had used that was no longer on my PC (Jott 43) displayed with a substituted font (Times Roman).

I can't reconcile my understanding of what "embedding" means and the font substitution; i.e., if the font was embedded when the document was created, why does it not display when the font itself is no longer present on the PC? What worries me is that if this happens on my PC, it is surely happening on the clients' PCs.

 

[Anne Troy]

Well, I can't find a direct answer, Don, but a couple things that may help you:

Information:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://www.microsoft.com/typography/embed/embed2.htm&e=7317

http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=4&q=http://www.myfonts.com/support/ts/win_embedding.html&e=7317

A little tool you can use:

http://www.vbaexpress.com/kb/getarticle.php?kb_id=137

 

[DKTaber]

Dreamboat: Thanks for the quick response. I downloaded and installed ttext.exe from Microsoft's download site. Article says you can then right-click any font in the document and it will open the multi-tabbed dialog box shown (which includes information on the font's embeddability). It doesn't; all I get is the standard Cut, Copy, Font, Paragraph, Bullets & Numbering, Hyperlink, Synonyms -- nothing about the font's properties. Am I missing something?

 

[Anne Troy]

Never used it...

 

[Anne Troy]

Can't find the download either...