Pdb font problem on windows xp

Hello! I am new here. I have hindi pfb (and pfm) font. There are hundres of files typed using this font in page maker 5 on windows 98 operating system. Now the windows 98 is upgraded to windows xp. The fonts are again installed using atm. Using these fonts, I can easily type in microft word. I have also installed both pagemaker 5 and page maker 7. The problem is that in none of these page maker versions I am able to type in that pfb (and pfm) font. I am ready to upgrade to adobe indesign, but the real trouble is about those hundreds of files typed in that font. These files get open but they show unnecessary gaps for zero width charcters such as "aa ki matra, oo ki matra etc.". I think thank problem is with windows xp because those fonts got properly displayed in windows 98. On another machine having windows 98, the files get proper displayed in page maker 5. I will be really thankful for the help that I may get.

IIRC correctly you don't need ATM with WinXP as it supports Opentype, Truetype and Type1 fonts natively.
And in general you need to have full administrator rights to install fonts.
There's probably threads about this somewhere, either in this PM section or the Type forum.
If your font is installed correctly, it will display and print just fine with InDesign (though for the latest version of InDesign, I suspect you'll need a newer version of windows.)

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That said, if I were running ATM (Light or Deluxe), I would limit myself
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www.pegtype.com

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I have problems printing some PDFs to Windows 7 - 64 bits. (Reader X 10.1.1)
I'm attaching a picture of what I see on the screen, and the garbled characters that come out of the printer.
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Printed:
This looks like a font problem. So I checked the properties and all the fonts have "Embedded subset".
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I've been banging at that issue since over a month, deforesting a large part of the tundra in the process (that is, until I confirmed that XPS printer had the same problem...)
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Hello Tom,
thank you for your reply and for dealing with my problem. I am sorry for not being understandable. It may be because English is not my first language. I'll try to explain it in a different way. I was working on iDVD project and tried different fonts. As I was doing the project in both languages (English and Russian) because I wanted them to look the same. For English version I took Monotype Coursiva font (hope I spell right) as it was suitable to the whole theme of the project. When I typed with the same font in Russian it did not look like its English version but still readable (it is not the case of encoding problems when a text you have typed looks as the set of strange symbols). Then I tried Lucida Handwriting and oher having the same result. I have tried CY fonts as well but it was difference in appearence between letters and digits (I typed chapter names like this January 2007 and so on). Digits appeared different to russian letters, actually they were similar to English version.
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Arial Narrow Bold (TrueType)
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delphinen wrote:Tonight I did another upgrade, and window title fonts became small again, so I had to configure font size at 12 again.
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