TT fonts displayed as open fonts in font manager

[Hilarie]

On my dad's Dell he was having a problem; the primary
font he uses, Times New Roman (which shows up in the
MSWorks font list, and indeed on both of my computers as
well, as a TrueType font)looks fine on his monitor but
has bizarre gaps in the middle of words when printed on
his laser printer.

I looked at the fonts in the font manager and only a few
fonts were listed as TT fonts; the rest were all Open
fonts, including Times New Roman which he prefers to use
for his newsletters. Why would this be? As a stopgap
measure he is now using Bodoni which is one of the few
fonts the font manager showed as being a truetype font.

What should i do? If they're showing up that way in the
font manager, it's not a printer problem, is it? It's
driving him crazy and he doesn't have far to go. ;-)
Help!

 

[Gary Smith]

Most of the fonts supplied with Wibdows 2000, including Times New Roman,
are Open Type fonts. That's normal -- the Open Type format is an
enhancement of True Type.

The symptom you're describing is most likely a problem wuth the printer
driver or the printer itself. Check to see whether an updated printer
driver is available from the manufacturer. Laser printers sometimes have
built-in fonts that they use when the printing software specifies a font
the printer regards as equivalent. The built-in font may be damaged.
There should be a way to specify that the computer's font should be used
instead of the printer's font. You may need to go to an MSWorks group to
get help in doing that.

On my dad's Dell he was having a problem; the primary
font he uses, Times New Roman (which shows up in the
MSWorks font list, and indeed on both of my computers as
well, as a TrueType font)looks fine on his monitor but
has bizarre gaps in the middle of words when printed on
his laser printer.