OCR-B displays the wrong font

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Kozco Author

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OCR-B displays the wrong font

New Mac Mini OS-X 10.9.4

Pages 4.3 and 5.2

OCR-B-10 BT Bitstream TrueType

TT0646Z_.TTF

My license for OCR-B (Optical Character Recognition) font fails in Pages 5.2.

The top illustration is what it's supposed to look like (Pages 4.3) and

the bottom illustration is what happens in 5.2. One is not a variant of the other.

They're different fonts.

http://kozco.com/fonts/OCR-B-Problem.png

Photoshop recognizes the correct font as does Pages 4.3. Pages 5.2 and

oddly TextEdit get it wrong. What's up?

Greg Kozikowski

Los Angeles

Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Jul 31, 2014 6:06 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 31, 2014 6:42 PM in response to Kozco

Possibly just another of the long list of things that simply don't work in Pages 5.2.

If you have Pages '09, is there any compelling reason why you want to use Pages 5.2?

Peter

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picas

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Jul 31, 2014 9:45 PM in response to Kozco

The saying is 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'.

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Kozco Author

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Jul 31, 2014 11:46 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

If you have Pages '09, is there any compelling reason why you want to use Pages 5.2?

Not any more. This effect is happening on two different Macs, but if the license doesn't care, I don't.

Koz

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Kozco Author

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Jul 31, 2014 11:55 PM in response to picas

The saying is 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'.

By reversing the animals, you can get the whole alphabet into a coherent sentence of only 32 characters. Drop one "the" and the plural of fox is foxes, but the plural of dog is dogs saving one "e". There are other, shorter versions, but the torture factor goes way up - I think one version features latin - and they're not based on the common phrase.

Koz

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