[B-Greek] Greek font question

Sarah Madden sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 16:19:00 EDT 2008


Perry --
The problem is that your fonts were not embedded. It is an easy thing to fix
-- if you can first bring the document up on whatever computer has the fonts
installed. The next steps are crucial.

Click File / Save As.
     A dialog box will appear.

Click Tools (in the upper right).
    A drop-down menu will appear.

Click Save Options
   A dialog box will pop up labeled "Save."

Click in the box next to "Embed TrueType fonts" so a checkmark appears.

Click "OK" and "Save."
*This embeds your fonts* in that document so you can read the fonts in that
document on another computer. HOWEVER, I don't think you can create another
document easily because I think it only saves the actual characters that
were typed.

Sarah
sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
Maryland - U.S.A.


On 4/9/08, Perry Stepp <plstepp at kcu.edu> wrote:
>
> A question for the more technically-minded list members:
>
> Why do my Greek and Hebrew fonts keep falling out of my manuscripts?
>
> I'm using a school computer and school software.  Word, MS Office 2003;
> I'm
> using the Scholars Press fonts, SPIonic, etc.
>
> When I open a document that was written on another computer, even though
> I'm
> using the same version of Word (not the same version of Windoze, our new
> computers have XP Pro) and the same fonts, all the Greek and Hebrew
> characters have been replaced by these little empty boxes.
>
> I'm trying to work with old documents, editing them into a new manuscript,
> and I need the Greek to work.  Very frustrating.  And there doesn't seem
> to
> be a way to recover the document with the Greek intact.
>
> What causes this?  Is there a remedy, or a way to recover the inflected
> Greek?
>
> Are there Greek fonts that are more stable than SPIonic, which WON'T
> collapse and fall out of my documents?
>
> PLS
>
> Perry L. Stepp, Ph.D.
>
> Dean, Sack School of Bible & Ministry
> Associate Professor, Bible & Theology
> Kentucky Christian University
>
> scholarly blog: http://www.pastoralepistles.com
> not: http://theophiluspunk.blogspot.com
>
>
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Sarah
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