Re: Map "MS Sans Serif" font -> "Microsoft Sans Serif"

[Huw D M Davies]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:32:09PM -0500, Warren_Baird(a)cimmetry.com wrote:
> ChangeLog:
>
> Added a fixed alias mapping "MS Sans Serif" -> "Microsoft Sans Serif".
>
> Description:
>
> Some excel documents expect to be able to load an "MS Sans Serif"
>      font and were getting "Microsoft Sans Serif" instead.

Why don't you add a font substitution to the registry?
Under HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\FontSubstitutes
something of the form
"MS Sans Serif"="Microsoft Sans Serif"
should work.

Huw.