Distorted Arial font in enhanced metafiles

[Guest]

Product: Microsoft Office 2003 SP1

Hi,

I've created charts in Excel using Arial 8pt and would like to paste as an
enhanced metafile into a Word document. When I do this, the font is
distorted in the picture that is pasted into Word (never seen that before!).
In fact, most fonts that I have tried have been distorted.

I called Microsoft technical assistance and all that they could recommend
was to recreate the chart as an embedded object in word. That's not the
ideal situation.

I've even tried saving the chart as a PDF (press quality) and then saving
that PDF file as a JPG (maximum quality) or PNG for insertion into Word...
and the end result was undesirable to say the least.

It's not so bad using Arial MT, but I would prefer to stick with Arial.

Any assistance you can provide is appreciated.

Van

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Vanessa

Product: Microsoft Office 2003 SP1

Hi,

I've created charts in Excel using Arial 8pt and would like to paste as an
enhanced metafile into a Word document. When I do this, the font is
distorted in the picture that is pasted into Word (never seen that before!).
In fact, most fonts that I have tried have been distorted.

I called Microsoft technical assistance and all that they could recommend
was to recreate the chart as an embedded object in word. That's not the
ideal situation.

Were they able to repro your observation? With a simple Excel Chart (as
a matter of habit, inserted as a new Sheet), copy/pasted (special) as
EMF, I don't see any font troubles.

0.2cents
Robert

 

[Guest]

Hi Robert

Thank you for your response.

Microsoft didn't even attempt to work through the problem with me (of
course, without charging me for their time). That's why I decided to come to
this discussion group.

I have since asked a colleague to open the same excel file on her machine,
copy and paste as EMF into a fresh word doc and then print the document to
see if she was experiencing the same problem and, as expected, her Arial font
was fine. So now I know it's my machine, not the file.

Even on screen, her Arial font looked ok in the picture in MS Word, whereas
mine looks distorted (random letters flushed against one another) once the
picture is imported into Word. So there seems to be something going on in my
machine with the font from copying the chart in excel to pasting as an EMF in
word.

I have a sneaking suspicion that my fonts need cleaning up. I recently
installed a pile of fonts and noticed that after I did this, they were
playing up in my adobe suite of programs (suggestions from newsgroups as to
the reason for my error messages was due to corrupted fonts).

Where to now???? Hmm, one ponders.

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Robert

Thank you for your response.

Microsoft didn't even attempt to work through the problem with me (of
course, without charging me for their time). That's why I decided to come to
this discussion group.

I have since asked a colleague to open the same excel file on her machine,
copy and paste as EMF into a fresh word doc and then print the document to
see if she was experiencing the same problem and, as expected, her Arial font
was fine. So now I know it's my machine, not the file.

Even on screen, her Arial font looked ok in the picture in MS Word, whereas
mine looks distorted (random letters flushed against one another) once the
picture is imported into Word. So there seems to be something going on in my
machine with the font from copying the chart in excel to pasting as an EMF in
word.

I have a sneaking suspicion that my fonts need cleaning up. I recently
installed a pile of fonts and noticed that after I did this, they were
playing up in my adobe suite of programs (suggestions from newsgroups as to
the reason for my error messages was due to corrupted fonts).

OK, I'd try to upgrade the graphics driver on your system. Single point
of failure (the driver) seems more likely than multiple (all/most font
files).

HTH, and good luck!
Robert