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My father-in-law has run into exactly this problem - documents he started working on in an earlier version of Word with Adobe Caslon are now no longer editable
by brongondwana 5y ago
My father-in-law has run into exactly this problem - documents he started working on in an earlier version of Word with Adobe Caslon are now no longer editable or printable because the new Caslon doesn't have the private codepage ligatures that he used. He's working on transcribing original prints from more than 100 years ago which used ligatures throughout.
It's very frustrating to have to go back and fix things that were done the correct idiomatic way at the time.
- Sunspark 5y agoWhy doesn't he just use the version of Caslon he started with? He must still have a copy of it embedded in the original document or on a disk somewhere no?
- brongondwana 5y agoBecause it's not supported by new versions of Windows or Word.
- mmmrk 5y agoTo ask the obvious, has he tried to convert the old fonts to OpenType? There are various free and proprietary tools to do that and Private Unicode Area ranges still exist.
- Sunspark 5y agoTo install a Type 1 font on Windows, you must have the .PFM file that normally accompanies the font's .PFB file and should be in the same directory as the .PFB file. You right click on the .PFM file and select Install. (This won't work as-is for .PFA/.AFM file pairs.)