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I am using Windows 98, Office 2000 with multilanguage pack, Keyboard is set to �Greek�, working in Word.

I have book length manuscript typed in Greek characters Times New Roman and wish to self publish.
 Xlibris,InstantPublisher,etc. say this is not a Type 1 font and as such can't be read by
 their software. 'Symbol' is a font they can read, but in changing Times New Roman Greek text to 'Symbol' fonts, conversion results in gibberish.



xlibris response to issue is as follows:

"Xlibris can only use Type 1 or Adobe postscript fonts. Even if you embed your True Type font, we cannot use it in our layout
programs. Neither of the two fonts you sent me will work. There is no Adobe software that can convert a True type font to a Type 1 font. When you type a letter into a
keyboard, it is assigned a number which never changes ('A' is 41, for example). The True type fonts you are using have over 3000 characters, and the Greek characters live
somewhere between 300-400. Our Type 1 characters only go to 255. So, when I take your True type manuscript and try to change it to Type 1, the computer can't read the
characters because their numbers are too high. It simply cannot read it, and there is no program sophisticated enough to translate it. Tthis means you will have to re-key all the
Greek text in a Type 1 font on the regular keyboard to meet our submission requirements.

The Greek fonts we can use are Symbol, Ismini and Mathematical Pi 4. Symbol is the best bet because the characters in the font align with our regular alphabet.
(So when you hit a, b, c on the keyboard with your font chosen as Symbol, you get alpha, beta, gamma, etc.)

Xlibris can read your Microsoft word document, but it is saved as an .rtf and then used in Adobe programs to create the layout. �

Q1: what settings should be used in typing or emailing Greek text?
Q2: Can Times New Roman be converted to Adobe Type 1?

Thanks so much for feedback. retyping manuscript is not an option.