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by samothrake

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Hey there.
I have a font that I am fond of using. Unfortunately, somehow in the midst of transfering files between computers I seem to have lost this font.
Now, I do have a Word document with this font embedded. And I did embed the full font.
I have searched high and low in my home, but I cannot find the CD which has this font, so I cannot simply reinstall it.
So the real question here is this: is there any way that I can extract that font from that document so I can use it elsewhere?
I don't care how it's done, I just would like some help in getting this font available for other Word Docs and othere programs.
Help is appreciated.

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by dkmc00

If you can see the font properly displayed in Word
then it exists on your system. Highlight a word or
a sentence created with this font and then click
on Format-Fonts to see the name of the font.
Then search that font file and copy it wherever
you want to.
If the font name is not visible then I guess you
will have to download it from the internet. You
can go to google and type in fonts. You'll get
a lot of hits.

by samothrake

Actually the whole reason to embed a font in a document, whether it be Word, Actobat or something else, is so that you can distribute that document to others without that font on their systems and the document will come up on their systems and look like you want it to.
Now I know the exact name of this font. And I can say that it is NOT anywhere on my computer except this file that it is embedded in.
I have done the web search for fonts. Several times. And so far I cannot find this particular font. Which is why I am looking to find a way to extract it from my Word document.

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