Word Viewer Fonts

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Our shop floor personnel use locked-down workstations with one defined
printer: a generic/text barcode printer needed to print barcoded tickets.
They are not pemitted any other defined printers, so the barcode printer is
the default printer. The shop floor personnel have access to a collection of
Word documents that describe job functions and safety procedures. Word
Viewer is used to display these documents. Since the only defined printer is
a generic/text, when viewed, the documents display with the Courier font.
This font makes it difficult to read most of the documents. Is there a way
to force Word Viewer to use the TrueType fonts that the document was created
with?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Kurt,

Probably not. Both Word and the viewer present
on screen what the current printer driver says it
can print.

You might consider setting up a Truetype capable
printer that outputs to a 'dummy' port ID or use
PDF files, HTML, CHM or similar for your files.

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Our shop floor personnel use locked-down workstations with one defined
printer: a generic/text barcode printer needed to print barcoded tickets.
They are not pemitted any other defined printers, so the barcode printer is
the default printer. The shop floor personnel have access to a collection of
Word documents that describe job functions and safety procedures. Word
Viewer is used to display these documents. Since the only defined printer is
a generic/text, when viewed, the documents display with the Courier font.
This font makes it difficult to read most of the documents. Is there a way
to force Word Viewer to use the TrueType fonts that the document was created
with?>>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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