PUB: Unexpected Results with Corel Decorative Fonts

Q138102

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Publisher for Windows 95, version 3.0
 - Microsoft Publisher for Windows, versions 2.0, 2.0a
 - Microsoft Windows 95
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SYMPTOMS
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If you try to use some of the decorative TrueType symbol fonts that ship
with CorelDRAW! version 4.0, 5.0, or 6.0, you will notice some of the
following symptoms:

 - No matter what point size you choose for your text, text in these fonts
   appears and prints tiny.

 - No matter what letter you type using one of these fonts, the character
   is the same.

 - Your text appears as a series of dots or dashes.

 - Your text appears as a Windows vector font such as Modern, Roman, or
   Script.

These problems occur if you are running Publisher on Windows 95 but not if
you are using Windows NT 3.51.

CAUSE
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Some of the fonts that are known to exhibit these symptoms are:

   Animals1
   Animals2
   Charting
   Clocks
   CommonBullets
   HomePlanning1
   HomePlanning2
   Kidnap
   OfficePlanning1
   OfficePlanning2

There may be others.

RESOLUTION
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You can use some of these fonts in WordArt objects successfully.

STATUS
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This is not a problem with Microsoft Publisher. These same fonts also work
inconsistently in other programs running with Windows 95.

The third-party products discussed here are manufactured by vendors
independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise,
regarding these products' performance or reliability.

Additional query words: 3.00 pub3 pub95 typefaces text weird
officeplanning homeplanning w_mspub mspub