Mapping of Fonts ?

[doneirik]

Hi,

My company just changed profile with regard to fonts used in Office etc. The new fonts are not among the freely available.

What are the consequences of sending documents with these fonts to people who do not have these fonts installed?

I think they are mapped to another font but I´m not sure how it works?

Can anyone help me see the consequences of using not-standard fonts?

regards
t.

 

[macropod]

Hi doneirik,

If the fonts are not available, Windows will substitute others that may or may not look much like the ones you're using. Note that you can't simply send the fonts along to the recipient to overcome that - copyright law prevents that.

For Word and PDF documents, however, you can embed the fonts in the document without violating copyright law. This increases the file size, but retains the document's appearance. For Word documents, the layout can still change a bit if the recipient uses a different printer driver, but that's always a possibility.

Cheers



[MS MVP - Word]

 

[TonyJollans]

You should be able to explicitly state what substituted fonts are used - although I don't have any knowledge of how this works in practice.

Personally I would question the business wisdom of sending out Word documents using Fonts you know the recipient doesn't have. PDFs shouldn't be a problem, but doing this with documents is likely to cause problems all the way down the line.

Enjoy,
Tony

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