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Born Broken: Fonts And Information Loss In Legacy Documents Geoffrey Brown and Kam Woods Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing Key Questions How pervasive are font substitution problems ? What information is available to identify fonts ? How well can we match the fonts required by a document collection ? How can we assist archivists in identifying serious font issues ? Page 8 MCTM Bulletin February 2005 K: I knew what you meant. I was just kidding. I’ll do XüLLbl (W):InputQ:FnOff :"""Y =! Y",Y#:PlotsOff the dishes tonight at dinner. YüL‚(W):Goto:0!Xscl:0!Yscl:Plot1(Scatt T er,L#,L$,&) PlotsOn 1:ZoomStat:StorePic Pic1 Lbl Q:FnOff :""üY :PlotsOff Jennifer felt better so offered the following challenge to Pause :Goto T Kevin. 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    FONTS INSTALLED WITH EACH WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM WINDOWS95 WINDOWS98 WINDOWS2000 WINDOWSXP WINDOWSVista WINDOWS7 Fonts New Fonts New Fonts New Fonts New Fonts New Fonts Arial Abadi MT Condensed Light Comic Sans MS Estrangelo Edessa Cambria Gabriola Arial Bold Aharoni Bold Comic Sans MS Bold Franklin Gothic Medium Calibri Segoe Print Arial Bold Italic Arial Black Georgia Franklin Gothic Med. Italic Candara Segoe Print Bold Georgia Bold Arial Italic Book Antiqua Gautami Consolas Segoe Script Georgia Bold Italic Courier Calisto MT Kartika Constantina Segoe Script Bold Georgia Italic Courier New Century Gothic Impact Latha Corbel Segoe UI Light Courier New Bold Century Gothic Bold Mangal Lucida Console Nyala Segoe UI Semibold Courier New Bold Italic Century Gothic Bold Italic Microsoft Sans Serif Lucida Sans Demibold Segoe UI Segoe UI Symbol Courier New Italic Century Gothic Italic Palatino Linotype Lucida Sans Demibold Italic Modern Comic San MS Palatino Linotype Bold Lucida Sans Unicode MS Sans Serif Comic San MS Bold Palatino Linotype Bld Italic Modern MS Serif Copperplate Gothic Bold Palatino Linotype Italic Mv Boli Roman Small Fonts Copperplate Gothic Light Plantagenet Cherokee Script Symbol Impact Raavi NOTE: Trebuchet MS The new Vista fonts are the Times New Roman Lucida Console Trebuchet MS Bold Script newer cleartype format Times New Roman Bold Lucida Handwriting Italic Trebuchet MS Bold Italic Shruti designed for the new Vista Times New Roman Italic Lucida Sans Italic Trebuchet MS Italic Sylfaen display technology. Microsoft Times