FONT CONUNDRUM

[Stuart Rogers]

Michael Zaichenko wrote:
> Hello Framers,
> I once already posted this question but never got any sensible answer. 
> Posting it again in hopes someone actually came across a solution to 
> this conundrum.
> XP SP2, FM 7.1 non-structured.
> Unicode fonts like arial, times new roman and courier do not display any 
> other map than Latin. Meaning Arial is one font on a system. In 
> FrameMaker it appears as Arial CYR, Arial Baltic, Arial Greek, Arial 
> TUR, etc. Same for the rest of the mentioned fonts. In theory when one 
> changes it to the needed version the font picks up the needed map and 
> displays say Greek or Baltic characters. When I was on Win2000 this was 
> not an issue - in XP I can't get a stable result. I have about 16 
> different machines and half of them have this problem - others don't. 
> All have installations of the same XP system and SP2. Problem seems to 
> stem from Windows itself as I tried practically everything to fix it and 
> be able to use unicode fonts without creating a whole bunch of fonts to 
> replace them. But where it Windows it is I don't know.
> Any thoughts?
> Michael
> P.S. I'm fighting this one for over a year and couldn't come up with 
> anything sensible. Help me out of this misery please....
> 

You may find a solution with WGL Assistant: http://wgl.typ.pl/

HTH,

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Stuart Rogers
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Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Toronto, ON, Canada
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