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C1008 - Authorware says all of our fonts are different, but they're not! What to do? by - Joseph Ganci Not long ago, I was
asked to help fix the same problem at a client site. Each of the team
members were accessing files off of a server, but every time they would open
a file that had been worked on a different machine, it would want to reformat
fonts even though they all were using Arial and Times New Roman and Windows
95. Upon further investigation, I discovered that some of their machines
were Dells, others Gateways, and still others from other manufacturers.
The upshot was that even though they thought they were using the same
fonts because they had identical names (Arial, Times New Roman), each of the
manufacturers had elected to put their own versions of these fonts on their
machines. The fonts looked very similar, but were just different enough
for Authorware to want to reformat.
The solution was to
find the straight Microsoft Windows 95 CD-ROM (rather than the Dell or Gateway
version CD-ROM), strip their systems of their fonts and reload them from the
one CD-ROM. That cured their problems. |