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PPT98: Incorrect Character Spacing w/Adobe PostScript Type 1 Fonts

Article ID: 189359

Article Last Modified on 10/3/2002

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This article was previously published under Q189359

SYMPTOMS

If you are using Adobe Type Manager version 4.x with Microsoft PowerPoint 98 Macintosh Edition, the spacing between characters formatted in an Adobe Type 1 font may appear incorrect. The same text in the same font may appear correctly in Microsoft PowerPoint for the Macintosh, version 4.0.

CAUSE

PowerPoint 98 uses different code to display text than PowerPoint 4.0. While the new code is faster than the old code, it does not always handle text the same way.

RESOLUTION

This problem does not occur if you use TrueType fonts.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Adobe Type Manager is manufactured by Adobe Systems, Inc., a vendor independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this product's performance or reliability.

Additional query words: ppt98 powerpoint98 powerpnt 8.0 ppt8 macintosh mac fonts true-type typed face different worse wrong incorrect

Keywords: kbbug kbfont kbformat kbpending KB189359


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