Office 2008: problems with third-party fonts
Not appearing properly within Office apps
[Thursday, February 28th]
MacFixIt reader Tolga Morawski reports that the Office 2008 applications do not correctly support several third-party fonts, including Agfa's "Sacker" font, that worked properly in Office 2004:
"When selected in the font menu Powerpoint 2008 displays them with a substitute/generic font that looks nothing like the selected font. This occurs without any warning or dialog box that a substitution has occurred."
"Upon calling Redmond for help, Microsoft's Mac Tech Support laughably told me after emailing them a bunch of sample files and enduring several long periods on hold that 'the engineers writing the program decided no 3rd-party fonts were being supported in Office 2008 and that I could only use Microsoft fonts.'"
We previously noted a different issue in which font distortion in various applications after installing Office 2008, try temporarily removing the Microsoft fonts folder from /Library/Fonts and restarting. This may alleviate the issue. In other cases, simply removing duplicate fonts may solve the issue.
If you're having problems with third-party fonts within Office 2008, please let us know.
Previous coverage:
- Office 2008: Security issue acknowledged, fix; font distortion fix; more
- Office 2008: More crashes, network-save issues, font distortion
- Office 2008: Serious ownership, font problems
- Office 2008 crashes and fixes; Spaces incompatibility
- Office 2008: Word crashes; deletes old Office; no full exchange support
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