Math A different on Office 2003 installed on XP and Win2k machine

[Guest]

I am in the process of upgrading to Win2k machines to XP to meet netowrking
requirements for the univeristy. After installing WinXP on an old desktop
machine, Word documents with symbols imbeded in the text do not show up the
same as they do on the laptop that still has Win2k. Both machines are using
Word 2003, but the Default Text + Math A (or B,C) are different on each
machine.

Here are some links to screenshots...

http://www.tamumc.org/forum/cpg/albums/userpics/10003/winxpshot.jpg

http://www.tamumc.org/forum/cpg/albums/userpics/10003/win2kshot.jpg

 

[Jay Freedman]

The Math A, B, and C fonts come with WordPerfect, not with either
Windows or Office. When you upgraded the machines, you evidently told
the Windows installer to do a clean install instead of an upgrade, so
it formatted the drive and wiped out any fonts that had been added
over the years. The screen shots show that the WinXP installations of
Word are substituting the Wingdings font for the missing Math A font.

You can copy the font files from the C:\WinNT\Fonts folder of the
Win2k laptop to the C:\Windows\Fonts folder of the WinXP machines. You
need the files named WP-Math-A.ttf and similarly for B and C.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Guest]

The Math A, B, and C fonts come with WordPerfect, not with either
Windows or Office. When you upgraded the machines, you evidently told
the Windows installer to do a clean install instead of an upgrade, so
it formatted the drive and wiped out any fonts that had been added
over the years. The screen shots show that the WinXP installations of
Word are substituting the Wingdings font for the missing Math A font.

You can copy the font files from the C:\WinNT\Fonts folder of the
Win2k laptop to the C:\Windows\Fonts folder of the WinXP machines. You
need the files named WP-Math-A.ttf and similarly for B and C.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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You wouldnt know where I can download these font files. The laptop is now
reformatted and I have had no luck trying to find them online.

Any help appreciated

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Although you may be able to find them online, you would probably be better
advised to substitute the equivalent symbols from fonts available on your
machine. One very good reason for this is that you may be unable to embed
these fonts in a PDF due to licensing restrictions (see
http://bear.cba.ufl.edu/centers/MKS/author_information/conversion.asp).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

The best thing for us at this point would be to convert all the documents to
math type formulas, we were just hoping to find an easier solution to make
the existing documents show up correctly. So far, checking other Win2K
machines, as well as working with a current versions of WordPerfect, none of
the fonts correct the issue in Word or WordPerfect. The new WP gives
different symbols than the wingdings Word inserts, but they are still
incorrect. As far as the professor is concerned, hes never used WP and doesnt
know where the fonts would have come from. The university network is going to
stop supporting all versions of Windows except XP which has forced all of
Texas A&M's departments to upgrade any old systems still using previous
versions. Thanks for everyones help, if I do find an easier solution I'll be
sure to post, but as of right now they are all going to be converted to
mathtype by the owner of the document.