collins@wam.umd.edu (Bernard F. Collins) (03/30/91)
Excel for windows seems to be a little nicer to science type people than the mac version. The inability to make a y-axis labels vertically oriented on a graph has been fixed in the Windows version. The problem I am having with it is that I cannot get my softfonts to print for these "landscaped" labels. I am using a LaserJet IIP. I got my softfonts from my worperfect directory (Tms Rmn and Helvetica, in several point sizes). The weird thing here is that the Windows printer setup box did not recognize the fonts as they were named in my WP\SOFTFONTS directory. I had to copy the font files to another directory and rename them to have an extension .FON in order for the printer setup to recognize them as fonts. Once it did identify these files they seemed to work properly. I loaded portrait and landscape versions of each font. Excel used the fonts correctly with both a portrait and landscape page setup. Except of course in the case I mentioned above. The vertically oriented labels were printed in some funky vector font. Does anybody know if this is because of the way I got the fonts into the Windows printer setup? Or perhaps it is a bug in Excel? Or maybe I don't know what I am talking about? In any event, if there is anyone out there with some insight into how I can get my fonts to work in all orientations I should be eternally grateful. Skip Collins, collins@wam.umd.edu