What Font Does Notepad Use
Ariane Delbrune
Sometimes when I copy and paste text into Notepad, it will paste the text in the default Notepad font and size, however, the latter half of the pasted line will be multiple font sizes smaller. I'm stumped as to why this is happening.
I wondered if it was perhaps some type of hidden formatting that was being copied into Notepad, but I believe that Notepad strips the formatting. I've subsequently taken the same text and tried copy and pasting it into URL bars and CMD prompts to strip any potential formatting (even though it was plaintext copied from web), and then re-pasted into Notepad, but it still leaves this phenomenon.
I've had the same issues with Notepad.Loading the file and analyzing it's contents in binary showed the reason:the line which starts with small font letters contains the "EF BB BF" Byte order mark (see _order_mark).
What to do: somehow this mark is preserved even on saving the file. Some editing will cause Notepad to recognize the Unicode and tell you that it will be lost if you save the text. You can also go to the very start and delete the invisible "character" by pressing the "Delete" key. (The font will get big again in an instant.)
How this happened (in my case): I was creating text files with Unicode markers and later on the text-lines were sorted and saved again. The byte order mark became part of a line of text that was put at the end of the file (invisible mark screwed up the sort order) and in the middle of the text this mark just causes this effect.
To actually explain the issue Uwe mentions: What you are seeing here is font substitution done by Windows. If text to be displayed doesn't contain a character in the font you selected then Windows will try to find one where it exists. This is most helpful for having runs of, say, Chinese or Arabic amidst Latin text because Windows has special fonts for certain scripts and no font can ever contain every script anyway.
Uwe mentions the byte order mark, although it doesn't have to appear in its UTF-8 incarnation. E.g. in a UTF-16 text file it looks different. Usually U+FEFF shouldn't appear in the middle of a text stream but rather only at the beginning, but it's just a zero-width space so usually there isn't any harm done if it does happen occasionally. But Notepad here just encounters a character the selected font doesn't have. So another one is found that contains it and since the characters around it fit fine in the then-selected font it has a certain contagiousness.
2 As noted, since the character usually only ever appears at the start of a text stream and then is stripped (because it's not considered part of the content) a font doesn't really have to have a glyph for it.
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I'm using the Solarized-light theme in Notepad++. The default font of this theme is consolas 10. I've reset the size to 12 but every time I open Notepad++, the font size changes back to 10 again. It's really annoying to have to change it. Is there anyway to keep the font size as default?
Also check Font Fallback subsection of Remarks section of this MSDN article to learn some interesting background how such a composite font is built and what are fallback rules.
Looking at them once sees that, for example, GlobalMonospace.CompositeFont has 0590-06FF and the fallback fonts listed, just one, is Courier New, which has Aleph. But Miro determined that that's not the composite file used, and that the one used is GlobalUserInterface.CompositeFont
Babelmap is interesting because it can show characters past FFFF (not necessary in this case), and also it can show what fonts on your system have a particular unicode character. But to see what font is actually used in practice by notepad, as a fallback font, you need to check that GlobalUserInterface.CompositeFont file. Then look in charmap or babelmap for the first font with the glyph/unicode character that you want.
Babelmap has composite fonts but I think they are custom ones not specifically the custom one used by windows. But one could usefully use babelmap to search for which font has a unicode character, or to look at what characters are within a font, even beyond FFFF.
I am using notepad++ on Ubuntu 20.04 I installed the inconsolata font by downloading and opening the .otf file then clicking on the install button. However, the font has not appeared in notepad++ for me to select. What should I do?
Its happening to me tooo. The Lesson4 Practice 1 .Workflow runs smoothly selects the correct font Style and Size . But after presssing OK the font doesnt change. The workflow finishes without any errors. But the font is not changed
Hi. Since the last Windows 10 update, when I try to print a PDF with Adobe 8 from either Word or PowerPoint, it prints a Notepad file instead with the error message below. When I print a Word document with Ariel font, it works fine, but not with Calibri, and almost all my files use Calibri. Please anyone help with a solution to this problem. Thanks.
You appear to be using Acrobat 8 which is very old and no longer supported by Adobe. Also Acrobat 8 has never been updated to work within the Windows 10 OS. See Adobe products and Enterprise Technical Support periods covered under the new Lifecycle Policy. Select the "Adobe Acrobat" product in the drop down box. You should notice that support for Acrobat X, 9, 8, and 7 has ended.
you do not mention what version of MS Office you are using. Versions of MS Office that worked with Acrobat 8 do not work with the Office versions available to Windows 10. See Compatible web browsers and PDFMaker applications
Although you are correct that Acrobat 8 was certainly never designed, tested, or updated for Windows 10 and that it has been long out of support, the fact is that if Acrobat 8 was updated to 8.1, many users do successfully use Acrobat 8.1 under Windows 7, Windows 8.x, and Windows 10.
Note that it also true that Acrobat 8 doesn't support the Create Adobe PDF PDFMaker feature under any recent versions of Microsoft Office. The user recognizes this as in fact is trying to produce PDF by printing to the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance.
In fact, the problem here appears to be related to font access and absolutely not compatibility with Windows 10. As much as it would be desirable for the user to upgrade to Acrobat DC, in fact, that upgrade might not actually solve the problem cited here which appears to be a problem with font availability or accessibility.
Hi Dov. Thank you for your detailed responses. To confirm, the Adobe Acrobat version is 8.1.0, and yes, it printed the same type of documents, including Calibri and Calibri bold before the last windows 10 update.
I did a printing experiment, and it appears that all other fonts in Word print to Acrobat just fine...including calibri italics and calibri bold italics. It's just Calibri and Calibri bold that bring up the Notepad message saying that it can't find them.
I went through all your suggestions and checks and everything is correctly located and the security settings are correct too, but Acrobat still won't recognize those two fonts. What would be the next set of checks and trouble shooting I should do?
Samples that I have done with Calibri and Calibri Bold with Distiller with the latest update to Windows 10 Pro x64, albeit with Acrobat DC (four releases newer than Acrobat 8.1), don't exhibit the problem you've encountered.
Ok, so I tried to delete those files and rebooted, but it didn't solve the problem. If there's anything else you can think of, please let me know as almost all my PowerPoint slides and Word documents use Calibri font. There must be a fixable solution to this if Acrobat is reading all other fonts perfectly fine.
I will note that the version of Calibri used on Windows 7 (all updates applied) is version 5.74 and on Windows 10 (again all updates applied) is version 6.18. I am wondering whether if you replace the versions of Calibri on your system with older versions whether the problem will resolve itself? (I'll contact you offline via e-mail about this!)
All this having been said, as much as I don't like appearing to push unnecessary updates to users, I think that you should really consider Acrobat DC for use under Windows 10. It is fully supported by Adobe and if there are any problems, we can actively investigate them.
I am using Adobe X Pro and I cannot print anything in PDF Format from the Edge Internet Browser as I used to before. Nor I am able now a protected PDF into a PDF Format while I was able to do that before even on Windows 10. I can print using Microsoft PDF, but doing that, it creates an image file that cannot be edited, highlighted, etc. Here is the error msg I get:
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
This PostScript file was created from an encrypted PDF file.
Redistilling encrypted PDF is not permitted.
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
In particular, the message indicates that the Distiller cannot locate the Calibri Bold font which apparently is being referenced by the Word document that you are printing to the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance. Distiller is assuming that the Calibri Bold font is in the usual C:\Windows\Fonts directory but cannot find it there or believes that the font is damaged.
The first thing you should do is open the Fonts Control Panel in Windows 10. Find the font family Calibri and click on that. The resultant window should show Calibri Bold, Calibri Bold Italic, Calibri Italic, Calibri Light, Calibri Light Italic, and Calibri Regular. If Calibri Bold is not there, that is the problem. You need to repair your Windows installation.
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