WP Characters not Extracted from Soft Fonts

DocumentID: 668363
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:50:07 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 6.0 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: When printing WP Characters using a soft font installed through the WordPerfect Font Installer, characters do not appear to be the same typeface. Customers who use the same font in Windows will note that the characters print in the correct typeface in Windows applications. Solutions: There is no workaround in WordPerfect 6.0 or 6.1. WordPerfect 6.1 does have a lower number of characters required by the formula, but a font that has a fewer number of characters mapped than the number required by the formula will still not use the extended characters from the font. Causes: The WordPerfect Font Installer (WPFI) uses a formula that reads the number of extended characters that the font has mapped and determines by that formula whether WordPerfect should use the characters from the font, or the default characters installed by WordPerfect. If the number of mapped characters is too low, then WordPerfect will use none of the font's mapped extended characters and rely on the default characters installed by WordPerfect. This problem will often occur when using shareware fonts but will also happen with TrueType and Type 1 fonts produced by font companies.

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