[B-Greek] Greek font question
Mike Holmes
holmic at bethel.edu
Wed Apr 9 16:52:31 EDT 2008
Sarah described nicely how to embed fonts--one good way to deal with this
issue.
A second way would be to install on the computer currently being used the
same fonts used in composing the paper. If one no longer has access to the
original computer (with its installed fonts), this may be the only way to
recover the files in usable form.
For new files, Unicode is the way to go, precisely to avoid this problem.
(Randall's e-mail gives the details on this, including conversion programs
for old files).
Mike
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From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Madden
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:19 PM
To: Perry Stepp
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Greek font question
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 Greek and Hebrew characters have been replaced by these little empty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
>
>
> "Every once in a while, you get shown the light In the strangest of
> places, if you look at it right."
> --Robert Hunter, "Scarlet Begonias"
>
>
>
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