publisher 2002: fonts print as squares

I have tried the suggestion of reinstalling adobe type
manager, removing some font files as microsoft website
suggests and still no luck. any suggestions?

Hi PAUL ),
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you posted:

|| I have tried the suggestion of reinstalling adobe type
|| manager, removing some font files as microsoft website
|| suggests and still no luck. any suggestions?

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 and older are critical about printer
drivers. Usually upgrading (or downgrading in some cases) will fix
the problems you are encountering.

If you have not already done so, you would want to visit the
manufacturers website of your printer to download and install the
latest printer driver that is available. It's important to note that
the CD-Rom that came with your printer will most likely NOT have the
most recent driver for your printer.

Popular Printer Driver Sites:
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Canon
http://www.usa.canon.com/html/cprSup...avfrom=Dr ivD

HP
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/eng/support.html

Lexmark
http://www.lexmark.com/US/support/drivers/index.html

Epson
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/index.jsp
and visit the downloads/drivers section

Brother
http://www.brother.com/E-ftp/info/index.html
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Search for the printer driver that represents the make and model that you
are using and download that driver. I would make sure you select "Save"
when prompted for download, not "Run". Typically many save to My Documents.
Do not install or run the setup.

Go to Start Settings Printers and right click on your current printer
and choose delete from the menu that appears. If prompted to remove all
files, choose yes. Then restart your computer.

Once your computer restarts, go to the folder where your new printer driver
was downloaded and double click the file to extract the printer driver.
This should prompt you through the setup routine for the new driver. If
your computer "detects new hardware" upon restart, it's ok to hit cancel
on that dialog. Go ahead and continue your setup routine of your newly
downloaded printer driver.

If the file that you downloaded is not an executable, but only a file
that is *.inf, then you will need to follow these steps:

1. Go to Start Settings Printers
2. Choose "Add Printer"
3. Choose Next
4. Select "Local Printer" then click Next
5. At the next dialog box choose "Have Disk"
6. Browse to the location of your newly downloaded *.inf file
7. Follow the remaining prompts (you may have to insert your Windows CD)
8. I would recommend restarting your computer at this point.

Now try a new print from Publisher.

This should fix your troubles. If not, either contact your printer
manufacturer directly and inform them of the problem you have experienced.
They might request that you try an older printer driver.

Post back if you have any further questions. Feel free to visit my website
at http://www.publishermvps.com for some great information.

--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com
~pay it forward~

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

fonts printing as "squares" means the font could not be found by the printer
driver.

sometimes this means there are multiple fonts with the same name supposedly
active (frequently TTF and T1 versions of the same thing). There should be
only one version of any given font active at the same time.

sometimes it means that the font really isn't activated.

Sometimes it means that the font is corrupted

sometimes it means you have too many fonts activated and the driver can't
find what it needs. (in such cases it is often helpful to uninstall nearly
ALL fonts and then add back what you really need. keeping the total in the
200-300 range)

and sometimes it means that the printer driver is not set to properly
download fonts (it may be set instead to "use device fonts") in which case
it ignores fonts on your system

Adobe Type Manager is needed only on Win ME and earlier.




"PAUL" wrote in message
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I have tried the suggestion of reinstalling adobe type
manager, removing some font files as microsoft website
suggests and still no luck. any suggestions?