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To: Mark Barratt <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Symbol printing incorrectly -- repost from Dov Isaacs
From: Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:49:59 -0800
Cc: Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>, David Knopf <david@xxxxxxxxx>, Framers List <framers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Thomas Neuburger'" <thomasn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, framers@xxxxxxxxx
In-Reply-To: <3E5A9E66.6010104@textmatters.com>
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Ah yes, the tyranny of the Corporate IS Guy! (8^)>
Yup, that could do it very easily.
- Dov
At 2/24/2003 02:36 PM, Mark Barratt wrote:
>Dov Isaacs wrote:
>>Actually, it wasn't that the TrueType "Symbol" font SYMBOL.TTF was
>>NOT installed on your system. It was that it was UNinstalled from
>>your system, intentionally or not. You cannot install Windows without
>>that font being installed. And I believe that even Microsoft Office
>>checks for it during its installation and attempts a reinstall of
>>it if it is missing. Thus, someone actually removed the font from
>>your system either on purpose or by accident.
>
>Is that true even for 'corporate builds', where they update by some kind of disc copy?
>
>I have had some initially hard-to-diagnose problems with templates shipped to a client where we discovered that the central systems people had installed their own special brew of Windows throughout the organisation, omitting things that 'nobody will need' to 'save space'. These things included a core font (not Symbol) and some software components.
>
>Mark Barratt
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