[NeilCharter]

Is it just me or do fonts in programs like Safari display fonts differently after installing Office 2004?

After starting Office for the first time, the program spends quite a lot of time installing new fonts. I had assumed it had added only additional fonts. Seems to me that existing fonts were also updated.

I'm not too sure if I like the change. What does anyone else think?

Neil

[Person Man]

Originally posted by NeilCharter:
Is it just me or do fonts in programs like Safari display fonts differently after installing Office 2004?

After starting Office for the first time, the program spends quite a lot of time installing new fonts. I had assumed it had added only additional fonts. Seems to me that existing fonts were also updated.

I'm not too sure if I like the change. What does anyone else think?

Neil

Well, not having Office 2004 yet, I'll venture a guess.

Office 2004 includes Unicode functionality, so they're probably installing updated versions of Microsoft's fonts (Arial, Verdana, etc) that contain the expanded character set (so you can type a document in, say, Greek, and use a font other than Lucida Grande, which is basically what we're limited to otherwise).

The problem is that the newer fonts also have different metrics than the older ones.

[akuma-x]

Originally posted by NeilCharter:
Is it just me or do fonts in programs like Safari display fonts differently after installing Office 2004?

After starting Office for the first time, the program spends quite a lot of time installing new fonts. I had assumed it had added only additional fonts. Seems to me that existing fonts were also updated.

I'm not too sure if I like the change. What does anyone else think?

Neil

Yeah I noticed that too. until you log out and log back in it does some odd stuff to the system fonts. I also noticed that it disables your fonts antialias settings too.
But to fix it just log out and back in then set you font antialias settings again.

[NeilCharter]

Thanks - logging out sorted the problem.

Neil