KB157747 - PPT: Palatino Font Prints Squished From Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

If your slide contains text using the Palatino font, and you print it to a PostScript printer from a computer running Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0, the text is printed with incorrect character spacing. Specifically, letters are printed too close together and wide letters and symbols (such as W, /, m, and so forth) overlap each other. This effect is most noticeable in text that uses Palatino, though it also occurs in text that uses Palatino Bold, Palatino Italic, and Palatino Bold Italic.

If your version of PowerPoint runs under Windows 3.1 or 3.11 and you print the same slide, the text prints correctly.

The same text prints correctly from Microsoft Word for Windows and Word for Windows 95.

WORKAROUND

PowerPoint 7.0 and 4.0

On the Format menu, click Replace Fonts.

From the Replace list, click Palatino.

From the With list, click Book Antiqua.

Click Replace and then click Close.

PowerPoint 3.0

On the Text menu, click Replace Fonts.

In the Replace column, click the check box next to Palatino.

In the With column, click Book Antiqua.

Click OK.