Automatic Font Switching for Palatino Linotype

[Andrew T. Dolan]

On some of the PCs I use, PowerPoint 2003 will do automatic font switching
from Palatino Linotype to Arial when I attempt to insert characters from the
Latin Extended-A subset. All I can find from Help and online elsewhere is
that "There are some fonts that do not support specific languages." When
one tries to use characters in a font that doesn't have those characters, a
different font will be substituted.

Palatino Linotype, however, is a unicode font and includes the full range of
characters. This font also works on some of the computers I use at work,
and it used to work on my home PC until I upgraded from OfficeXP 2002 to
2003. Palatino Linotype isn't even listed as an option in the "complex
scripts font" pull-down menu under Format Font.

All I can guess is that there's a problem with mapping to this OpenType
font.

Suggestions? Patches?

Thanks.

ATD

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Without access to the versions of fonts installed on each computer it's hard to
say, but what you might want to do is download the Font Properties Extension at

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeProperty21.mspx

This'll let you rightclick on the font on both systems and learn pretty much
all there is to know about it.