Solution
For bold, italic, and bold italic to work successfully, you must have the bold, italic, and/or bold italic versions of the font installed. When you apply italic or bold attributes to such a font, the operating system creates a false bold, false italic, or false bold italic for the screen display. These false fonts rarely print.

To avoid this problem, always choose a font and its fonts style from the Font menu in your application. Do not use the bold or italic text effects. These usually appear as buttons or menu choices in an application. If the style you want does not appear in the Font menu, you must install the font style. If you do not own the style, you are going to have to buy it.

Checking the fonts you have

Fonts on Disk or CD. If you purchased the font on a disk from Bitstream, the label lists the font names and styles included on the disk. If bought a font CD from Bitstream, the product pacakging includes a catalog or poster listing all the fonts on the CD. If you have the font style you want, you need to install it.

Fonts Bought Online. If you bought Bitstream fonts on-line through Bitstream, check the E-mail receipt for your order. The receipt lists the fonts you purchased, both the font name and the font styles.

To find out if the font style you want is available, go back to the Web site and search for the font you are using. The online listings show all available styles for the font. Look to see if there is a font in the style you are trying to use. If there is, you must buy and install that font to successfully use that style.

For a printed catalog of the fonts available from Bitstream, please contact Bitstream Sales.

NOTE: Some fonts do not have bold, italic, or bold italic weights or styles.

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