IMAC problem

[Patricia Chaput]

Several of us in our department have had problems.  Some problems we've
managed to fix (that is, with technical assistance) and some remain.  The
only safe route for us has been to stick with Word 5.1.  Pat Chaput

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Patricia R. Chaput
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Barker Center, 12 Quincy St.
Harvard University
Cambridge, Ma.  02138
Dept. tel:  617-495-4065; fax:  617-496-4466
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Beyer, Tom wrote:

> I think the problem is with Word and Office 98, I have a Russian text that
> appears fine and prints okay and transfers between programs if opened with
> Word 5.1. But in Office 98 the Russian letter "e" literally disappears from
> the screen. Try copying you old word program to the Imac and using it for
> now.
>
> Anyone else had problems with Office 98 for the MAC?
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Patricia L. Zody
> > Reply To:     Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
> > Sent:         Tuesday, January 11, 2000 7:37 AM
> > To:   SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> > Subject:      IMAC problem
> >
> > Dear Seelangers,
> >
> > If you could help with the problem
> > described below, I would be very grateful.
> >
> > Thank you, Pat Zody
> >
> > ********************
> >
> > The problem is that after moving documents and fronts from a PowerMac 7200
> > to a new iMac, some of the fonts appear correctly on the screen but do not
> > print properly on a PostScript laser printer.
> >
> > The original computer (PowerMac 7200/120 if memory serves) was running
> > system 8.0, LaserWriter driver 8.4.3 and MS Word 6.0.1.  The fonts that
> > were transferred were bitmap fonts, there were no printer components for
> > these fonts.  The new computer is an iMac 350Mhz with 128Mb ram,
> > LaserWriter 8.4.3 (downgraded from 8.7)  running MS Office 98 and trying
> > to
> > print to any number of postscript laserwriters.  When I was setting up the
> > iMac I had installed the Russian and other Slavic sounding language kits
> > from System 9.  However the Prof indicated that this would change how she
> > worked and the keyboard mapping of characters and asked me to remove the
> > language kits.  I removed them using the custom remove option of the OS 9
> > installer.  I wouldn't expect that any of the problems were caused by this
> > or am I wrong?
> >
> > One of the more interesting caveats that I encountered was that if I copy
> > text from one of the troubled documents and paste it into another
> > application, say Stickies, the text no longer appears on screen as it did
> > while the text was in word.  It has minor character variations compared to
> > the characters looking correct in Word.  However, the variations do not
> > match what is printed from Word.  Additionally, if I print the text from
> > Stickies the printout has character changes when compared to the text that
> > is shown in Stickies and is different from the text printed from Word.
> >
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