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Sam Westcott - 30 Nov 2004 08:00 GMT

hi i am a complete newbie

can someone help me with this?

when you open a font in c:\windows\font

you'll get the quick brown fox story

yes ?

why do some fonts like modern.fon come up with a different story about jack
daws etc?

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Alan Edwards - 30 Nov 2004 08:36 GMT

You probably have .fon files associated with a different viewer than
.ttf files.
If you really mean "jackdaw" instead of "jack daw" and you get a
message like "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz" from .fon files,
then check in Explorer-View-Folder Options-File Types

The path to Folder Options may vary according to your operating
system. It may be:
Explorer-View-Folder Options
Explorer-Tools-Folder Options
Start-Settings-Folder Options
Start-Settings-Control Panel-Folder options.

...Alan

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In microsoft.public.word.printingfonts, "Sam Westcott"
<samiam40@iprimus.com.au> wrote:

>hi i am a complete newbie
>
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>why do some fonts like modern.fon come up with a different story about jack
>daws etc?

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Character - 05 Dec 2004 05:48 GMT

> hi i am a complete newbie
>
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> why do some fonts like modern.fon come up with a different story about jackdaws etc?

There are a number of internal font settings that seem to affect
Fontview's choice of pangram. Some of us have tried to find the
definitive algorithm and failed :) In some cases, it's the symbol font
attribute, in others it goes away if there hadn't been a unicode range
set and it gets set. Still, it's a mystery.

- Character

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