Oops! Look ma, no fonts!

[Dov Isaacs]

ITC Zapf Dingbats is NOT a font provided by either
Microsoft as part of Windows or by Adobe as part of
FrameMaker, Acrobat, or any other current product. 
You need to license it separately.

	- Dov
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Paul Kent
> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 4:29 AM
> To: Framers
> Subject: Oops! Look ma, no fonts!
> 
> I just noticed that my new PC doesn't have the Zapf Dingbats 
> font I've been using to show arrows in my documents. These 
> guides use an arrow in the text to show nested menu 
> selections like "Tools->Language->Set Language." I guess I'm 
> not committed for life to the arrows, but they've worked 
> nicely to date, the client seems to like them, and I like them. 
> 
> I can think of any number of potential work-arounds, but I'll 
> bet someone has thought of this before. 
> 
> My first thought was to look at my Microtype Shortcuts 
> document for which key strokes to use to get a slightly 
> different arrow in a font that IS installed, but that 
> revealed two new problems. First, I haven't installed the 
> MicroType (is it a plug-in, I forget) Shortcuts on this new machine.
> Second (looking at my old machine that does have it 
> installed), it looks like the Shortcuts document assumes a 
> "Dingbats" font that also isn't installed on this new machine.
> 
> So, new machine is running XP Media Center Edition, whereas 
> old machine is running XP Pro. Is this where the font issue 
> stems from?
> This machine is new enough that I can get the Vista upgrade 
> for free, and it has the horsepower to run it well, so I need 
> to take an eventual upgrade into account when I consider the 
> optimum solution. That is, if I'm going to be installing new 
> fonts that work on XP and then installing new fonts again 
> that work on Vista, maybe I should upgrade first (not really 
> ready to do that yet unless I have to).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> J. Paul Kent
> 206-383-0539
> 206-508-1144