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The Font Properties dialog details font and text information on a specific text string in the page on view.

The Font Table presents information on all fonts available to the document. The information can be broken into lists showing details of all fonts in a selected category.

1.	Select one of these options from the 'Fonts' menu:

o	Resident Fonts to view 'Permanently Resident Fonts' table, i.e. fonts that are resident on the system in the RESIDENT.FIF file.

o	Fonts in use to view 'Fonts Used by Current Document' table.

o	Downloaded fonts to view 'Download Fonts Used by Current Document' table.

o	Substitute fonts to view 'Default font substitutes' table of any fonts for which there is a default font set up.

•	To display substitute fonts specifically set up for the current document, choose Current font substitutes from the drop-down list.

1.	Right-click the mouse in the text string that you want to examine.

2.	Select an option from the pop-up menu

o	Choose Font Properties to display the dialog, or

o	Text Details to log the details and display the dialog.

3.	You may choose to Show selected font in red (see also To highlight a selected font); click this option again to switch back to normal rendering of the page.

4.	Click Substitute... to display the 'Font substitutes' dialog: see Setting up a Font Substitute file.

5.	Specialists note: if it is a downloaded bitmap font, there is also a button Add font to character recognition database which opens EEfonts directly.

The 'Font properties' dialog shows these details of the text string (if they are specified in the document file):

	Characteristic	Example
	Typeface	16602
	Family	Arial
	Proportional
	ID	0
	SymbolSet	19U
	Size	10 point
	Style	0
	Weight	0

A description may also given, e.g. Windows symblolset 10 point regular. This particularly helpful when a Windows font is loaded and found to have the wrong weight, style etc.. When a downloaded TrueType font contains characters identified as belonging to an installed font, the description includes "Recognized as font...". Square brackets around a Family name indicate that the font is not available.

It also shows how EscapeE has rendered the Text:

Font type	Bitmap 300dpi
Name	AR10R
Screen font	AR10R	Prescaled
PDF substitute	Helvetica	Size 10
Filename	I:\REDTITAN\FONTS\pcldload\13950.RFF
Recognized as font	Arial~Regular	223 known chars

The details in 'Font properties' are those of the text string shown in the Text box (just above the dialog's buttons). If there are characters in the string coded as hexadecimal numbers, these are shown in red to minimize confusion with number characters in the text itself. For example in this text string, the "dollar" sign has been coded as $24: "$24100@5%".

1.	Select Show selected font in red from the 'Fonts' menu or tick the check-box at the top-right of the 'Font Tables' dialog (see above).

2.	Select the font to be highlighted on the screen view of the page from one of the font tables.

Red is normally used as the highlight color, but any red text in the document that uses the selected font will be shown in green on the screen instead.

When this option is active, a tick is placed beside it in the menu.

•	Tick Show substituted fonts in red from the 'Fonts' menu to color any text using a substituted font on the screen.

Red is normally used, but any red text using a substitute font will be colored blue instead.

•	Click the red triangle warning button on the Tool-bar to see details in the Error messages window of the Console notebook.