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Wingdings Font Not Displaying Correctly |
The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: With an HP Laserjet 4 (or equivalent printer) that has Wingdings as a built in font, simply typing in text in this font will only display and print as ascii characters (regular text). It does not have the same effect as trying to do this in the Windows versions of WordPerfect; i.e. allowing you to just type in the wingding characters onto the screen and printing them. This issue also applies to other non text fonts from various sources. Solutions: In order to use the wingding characters, you will have to do the following: 1) Select the character from character set 5, OR, 1) Chose the correct printer driver for your printer. 2) Retrieve the CHARMAP.TST file that ships with WordPerfect. (This is installed in the default documents directory when using the Standard installation). 3) Move your cursor to the beginning of Character set 12 in this document, and insert the Wingdings font there. While most characters in the Wingdings font are in character set 5, those that do not appear will be mapped to character set 12. 4) Print the document, making sure that Graphics Quality is set to Do Not Print. 5) Using this printout as a reference, you can then use the Wingding font and the WP Character set 12 to insert and print the character desired. For example, if you wanted a particular symbol in your document, simply: a) move your cursor to the appropriate point in your document, b) select the Wingdings font, c) access the WP Character sets by pressing CONTROL-W (in 5.x series, use CONTROL-V) d) Type in the appropriate number from your printout, i.e. 12,xxx. NOTE: The characters in character set 12 will either be blank or show as an empty box, since there is no screen font mapped to this character set. The characters in character set 5 will display on the screen as the character desired, if you are in graphics mode. Causes: WordPerfect is working as designed. The program is designed to give the user the actual characters typed, regardless of the current font selected. For example, if the user presses the letter "A" on the keyboard, the character inserted into the document is the letter "A", even though an "A" may not exist in the current font. (Like Wing dings). WordPerfect will search for a font that has the requested character and do an Automatic Font Change (AFC) to print the character. Characters not on the keyboard are accessed by using the WP characters feature in the program. Most of the characters in the Wingdings font are found in WP character set 5. In order to access these characters, press Control-W, and type the number of the character desired. |
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