Oops! Look ma, no fonts!

[Steve Cavanaugh]

Wingdings 3 apparently comes with Windows XP and is almost exclusively
arrows. 


Steve Cavanaugh
Sr. Technical Writer
NAT Seattle Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+scavanaugh=nat-seattle.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+scavanaugh=nat-seattle.com at lists.frameusers.com]
On Behalf Of 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

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