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

[Huw D M Davies]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:32:09PM -0500, [e-mail] 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.