FONT CONUNDRUM

[Gagne, Bernard (Bolton)]

Hi Michael,

WGL Assistant works great but it also creates font instances labelled as
FONTNAME CYR, FONTNAME Greek, etc. Windows XP created the ones for Arial and
Times New Roman to help non-Unicode compliant apps, like Framemaker, display
and print documents using the non-Latin based glyphs in the font sets.

Berny Gagné
Lead Technical Writer
Husky Injection Molding Systems
Bolton, Ontario, Canada 

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+bgagne=husky.ca at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+bgagne=husky.ca at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
Stuart Rogers
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 10:35 AM
To: Michael Zaichenko
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: FONT CONUNDRUM

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,

-- 
Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Toronto, ON, Canada
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325

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