Times New Roman font problem

OS: Vista Home Premium 64-bit with Office 2003

When a client asked me to do a document using Times New Roman 12, I
discovered that Vista did not have that font (it didn't appear in my font
list nor was it available in Word), so I downloaded and installed it from a
file called Times32.exe. I had to manually extract the TTF files from the
archive because running the exe didn't install the font, even though the
installer said it had. When I used Vista's Add New Font and specified the
actual TTF files, Vista said they were already installed, and THEN Times
New Roman appeared in Vista's font list and in Word 2003.

Now I have Word 2003 telling me that I'm using Times New Roman, but it
doesn't look like Times New Roman on my screen nor on paper. It comes out
in both places looking like Tahoma, which is what I set up to be my default
font in Word.

At first I thought it might be a problem with the template (.dot) file I
was using for my client, so I created a blank new document using Normal.dot
and set the font to Times New Roman. It looked like Times New Roman on my
screen, but on paper it looked like Tahoma.

Do I need to find a special edition of Times New Roman specifically for
64-bit Vista? Why is what I see not what I get?


Tom

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On Wed, 26 May 2010 19:34:05 -0700 (PDT), vista bill
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>More information about Times New Roman (as used with Vista)...
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...aspx?FMID=1653
>
>
>Take a look at the font properties in the fonts you downloaded and see
>if they compare. Upon reading your posting again, it appears that the
>fonts you downloaded are TTFs (True Type)... the versions of Times New
>Roman as used by Vista are OTFs (Open Type). That shouldn't make a
>difference, but you possibly have two versions of Times New Roman in
>your fonts folder now. Look in your fonts folder to see what's there.
>Unless you deleted the Times New Roman that was installed when you
>installed Vista, it should still be in the folder. If you made a
>backup of the fonts folder when Vista was installed, you should find
>it in the backup file. Did you restart your computer?

The Times New Roman fonts I have, according to Vista, are Open Type, and
yes I did restart my computer - several times. I can create a new document
with a font that _appears_ to be Times New Roman on my screen, but when I
print, it looks like Tahoma.

There are no duplicate entries.

Tom

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On Thu, 27 May 2010 19:20:26 -0600, Tom Hall wrote:

> On Wed, 26 May 2010 19:34:05 -0700 (PDT), vista bill
> <> wrote:
>
>>More information about Times New Roman (as used with Vista)...
>>
>>http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...aspx?FMID=1653
>>
>>
>>Take a look at the font properties in the fonts you downloaded and see
>>if they compare. Upon reading your posting again, it appears that the
>>fonts you downloaded are TTFs (True Type)... the versions of Times New
>>Roman as used by Vista are OTFs (Open Type). That shouldn't make a
>>difference, but you possibly have two versions of Times New Roman in
>>your fonts folder now. Look in your fonts folder to see what's there.
>>Unless you deleted the Times New Roman that was installed when you
>>installed Vista, it should still be in the folder. If you made a
>>backup of the fonts folder when Vista was installed, you should find
>>it in the backup file. Did you restart your computer?
>
> The Times New Roman fonts I have, according to Vista, are Open Type, and
> yes I did restart my computer - several times. I can create a new document
> with a font that _appears_ to be Times New Roman on my screen, but when I
> print, it looks like Tahoma.
>
> There are no duplicate entries.
>
> Tom

Consider reinstalling the fonts in question - TNR and Tahoma. I Googled for
"reinstall windows fonts vista" and got a lot of hits. Some look
reasonable, but (a) I don't have Vista, (b) I don't want to mess up my
computer by experimenting, adn (c) I don't know much in this area, so I
have no useful advice beyond the above.

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On Sat, 29 May 2010 10:08:12 -0600, Tom Hall <>
wrote:

>I will however try deleting and reinstalling TNR.

No joy. I still get something other than TNR. In fact, after deleting the
TNR fonts, rebooting, re-installing TNR and rebooting again, the test
document that had previously LOOKED like TNR on my screen no longer looked
like TNR, even though Word said that was the font in use.


Tom

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