Adobe Garamond font in bold doesn't distill properly

[Linda G. Gallagher]

Bingo! That was the answer. Now the bold looks, well, bold when I print the
PDF.

I didn't dig deep enough in the FM folder to find where the fonts were.
Silly me, I didn't think they'd be that buried if FM installed fonts. My
bad.

Thanks, Paul! 


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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Paul Findon
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:11 PM
To: FrameUsers List
Subject: Re: Adobe Garamond font in bold doesn't distill properly

On 17 Jun 2008, at 19:13, Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
>
> I created a new template recently and selected Adobe Garamond for  
> my body
> text. I created a bold character tag and set it to As Is, then  
> selected Bold
> for the weight. When I created a PDF, all of the bold text was all  
> weird
> (oddly spaced in a supposed monospaced font).
>
> After looking into that, I found that the only Weight option for  
> the Adobe
> Garamond font was actually Semibold, so I changed the character tag to
> Semibold, but I'm seeing the same results when I create a PDF. All  
> looks
> fine on-screen and when printing a laser printer from FM, so it  
> must be
> something related to Acrobat.
>
> In looking at my Distiller options, I don't see any of the Adobe fonts
> listed in the Embedding field on the Fonts screen. I think these  
> fonts came
> with FM 8 (I see several Adobe fonts in FM 8), because I don't  
> think I had
> them before I installed FM 8.
>
> I can't seem to find where these Adobe fonts are installed, and I'm  
> not sure
> how to resolve this PDF issue. Of course, I can change to a different
> Garamond (I do have another), but I'd like to understand the  
> problem and
> solution better, in case I really want to use these Adobe fonts in the
> future

Hi Linda,

For some reason, the OpenType fonts bundled with FrameMaker 8,  
including Adobe Garamond Pro, reside in

C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker8\fminit\fonts\adobe\

which, in addition to making them not available to non-Adobe programs  
such as Office, also means that Distiller can't find them.
To fix this, go to Distiller > Settings > Font Location, and add the  
above font location.

That's what I had to do to get the bundled Minion Pro and Myriad Pro  
to embed.

Paul
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