Some Fonts Do Not Take Italic or Bold Formatting
  
PSS ID Number: Q122364
Article last modified on 05-17-1998
 
windows:3.0,4.0,4.0a,4.0c
 
WINDOWS
 

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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, versions 3.0, 4.0, 4.0a, 4.0c
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SUMMARY
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Some TrueType fonts in PowerPoint 3.0 do not have bold or italic
formatting. If you apply bold or italic formatting to these fonts, the
fonts will not appear to be changed. The font will display (and thus print)
as if those formatting attributes were never applied. This can make
presentations created in PowerPoint 4.0 and saved in PowerPoint 3.0 format
look different when viewed in PowerPoint 3.0.
 
MORE INFORMATION
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PowerPoint 3.0 is much stricter about presenting a WYSIWYG appearance than
PowerPoint 4.0. If a font does not have support for an attribute (no bold,
italic, or bold-italic TrueType font files), then PowerPoint 3.0 will not
try to render that attribute even though Windows can synthesize it.
 
PowerPoint 4.0 does not have this limit. It will call the appropriate
Windows functions to synthesize attributes that are not directly supported
by the font.
 
Additional query words: 3.00 4.00 4.00a 4.00c weight bold-italic
winppt 4.00a 4.00c italicize italicizing type style typestyle
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Keywords          : kbdisplay kbprint kbFont 
Version           : windows:3.0,4.0,4.0a,4.0c
Platform          : WINDOWS
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbinfo
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