Font Changes With New Printer Driver

DocumentID: 609900
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:34:25 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: A customer created a document with a certain font and then updated to a newer printer driver for the same printer. With the new printer driver selected, the font in the document changed, even though the same font was still available in the new driver. Solutions: If the name of a font in a new printer driver changes in any way, WP cannot recognize the font name and tries to find the best match for the font. WP uses a font name hash of an abbreviation of the font name. If the actual font name in the printer driver changes, the hash of the abbreviated name will not be the same. Thus, when WP looks for the font, it won't be able to find it. If WP cannot find the exact font, it will use the font's typeface attributes (given in the printer driver) to find the closest match. WP selects the first close match it finds.

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