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As I've discovered while playing with this document and reading this thread: Current Word for Mac blocks opening the file under discussion, with no obvious wor
by jasomill 3y ago
As I've discovered while playing with this document and reading this thread:
Current Word for Mac blocks opening the file under discussion, with no obvious workarounds.
Current Word for Windows will only open the file with non-default security settings, and won't render the images at all.
Per Microsoft, PICT image support was removed from all versions of Word for Windows in August 2019[1].
The current version of Word for Mac fails to render the images with a misleading error message ("There is not enough memory or disk space to display or print the picture.").
As for fonts, they should render fine assuming you have matching fonts, where "matching" is defined by some application- or OS-specific algorithm, e.g., a post above indicates LibreOffice (on Linux?) substituting Times New Roman for Palatino when Palatino Linotype was avilable, whereas current Word on Windows 11 has no problem rendering Palatino as Palatino, presumably using the copy of Palatino Linotype installed with the OS.
Finally, if matching spacing (character, word, and line), line breaks, and page breaks is important, you should definitely open the document using as close a version of Word as possible with the exact fonts used when creating the document installed.
Oh, and hope the original author didn't rely on printer fonts without matching scalable screen fonts available, or else you're probably SOL unless your goal is printing to a sufficiently similar printer.
[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/support-for-pict-images-is-being-turned-off-in-office-for-windows-e2c35537-f029-4f10-8650-211b388e20e8 https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/support-for-pict-...