When you type an extended character in a 2007 Microsoft Office program or in a Microsoft Office 2003 program, the character is replaced by a character in the Chinese MingLiU_HKSCS font. Typically, this font is included in Windows Vista.

This problem occurs when you use a program such as Microsoft Office Word or Microsoft Office PowerPoint.

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In Windows Vista, when you print a document that uses the Meiryo font, the document may be printed by using a TrueType font instead of by using a device font. This problem occurs even though the following conditions are true:

• The Meiryo font is specified as the alternative device font in the printer’s properties dialog box.
• The printer is configured to use device fonts instead of TrueType fonts.

Note: Typically, you do this by selecting the Substitute with Device Font option in the TrueType Font list in the Printer Advanced Options dialog box.
This problem may also occur when you use other fonts. For example, you may experience this problem when you use the MS Gothic font or the Mincho font together with the JIS2004 specification in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or in Microsoft Windows XP.

When you view certain underlined Japanese characters in Windows Vista, the characters appear as expected. However, when you print these characters, the underlined part of the character is not printed.

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When you use Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.x or an earlier version of Acrobat Reader to open a Portable Document Format (PDF) file in Windows Vista, the MS Gothic font and the MS Mincho font appear garbled.

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