PUB: Rotated Non-TrueType Text May Print Incorrectly

If you print a rotated text frame that contains text formatted for a printer-resident font, it will print with a different font. Therefore, the text may print outside the margins of the text frame.

This problem also occurs with the Windows 3.x fonts Modern, Roman, and Script.

This problem does not occur with text using a TrueType font, or text using fonts from another font-providing software package such as Adobe Type Manager.

Many printer languages do not support incremental rotation of text. If you print to one of these printers, Publisher substitutes a TrueType font for the printer-resident or vector font in the rotated text frame. If there is a TrueType font that matches your printer font well, the effect will not be noticeable. If there is not a good match, the effect will be very noticeable.

If you rotate a text frame that contains printer-resident or Windows vector fonts, you will see the following message: NOTE: Some printer languages (such as PostScript) do support incremental rotation of text. This problem won't be apparent when you print to those printers.

If you create a publication in which you plan to use rotated text, do not use printer-resident fonts or the Windows vector-based fonts.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.