What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

[Ronn! Blankenship]

At 09:23 AM Friday 4/25/2008, Lance A. Brown wrote:
>David Hobby said the following on 4/25/2008 7:12 AM:
> > Yes.  So hunting up the right fonts and installing them
> > everywhere would have solved it.  I don't really understand
> > why a word processor would ever have different screen and
> > display fonts, though.  I mean I can see how it would happen,
> > but that seems like pretty dumb design.
>
>More likely it was a difference in fonts available to the word processor
>and the printer.



That's what I was thinking, too.



>It's amazing how "stupid" such things can be.



Not to mention how annoying it can be, esp. when 
you are doing math or something else which 
requires a lot of symbols, many of which are not 
even included in the latest Unicode™ standard, or 
in fonts designed to that standard . . .



It Ain't Just In The Fonts That You Find Dingbats Maru


. . . ronn!  :)