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Shana

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I have a multi-user database that has been used by my company for several years. i did not create it however i have modified it several times. we use it to print all different types of labels. Lately a curious thing has been occuring. While i am one of the only people to have the admin password (and the only one to ever use it) the font has been mysteriously changing on all the layouts. We all use macs here and it is a little frustrating because I have to change it back on about 50 different fields because our labels have to match our company profile using a similar font (Helvetica Bold), in bold style, size 14 and the font always gets reset to plain, size 12, Gill Sans.

No one should have access to change the font for the field except for each individual record they are working on.

Does anyone know why this may occur?

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Shana:

You don't say what OS or FMP version you are using, so it's a bit difficult to say exactly what the problem is. However, it could be one of a number of things. A few questions:

Are the fields in the print layouts set to Helvetica Bold 14?

Do all of the machines that print have Helvetica Bold on them?

Are the fields where the data is entered Helvetica Bold 14?

Is there somewhere a person could change the font?

-Stanley

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We've had a similar problem with FMP 7 and Panther and the fonts definitely changed from version 6 to 7. I understand there is a new font smoothing "feature" in FMP 7. The user wants it to look like it did in v6 and I am not sure how to fix it for him.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated...

Thanks, Jewels (Julie)

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This is an OSX conversion issue, because OSX has different font engine.

I had to go through and check every single printed layout and tweak it to work in OSX.

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