Adobe Garamond font in bold doesn't distill properly

[Art Campbell]

Another solution would be to install them from the \Frame folder.
A collection of fonts are in the same place on the 7 system I'm
working on right now, but installing made them available to everything
and consolidated the files into the \Fonts folder.

Art

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Linda G. Gallagher
<lindag at techcomplus.com> wrote:
> 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!
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Linda G. Gallagher
> TechCom Plus, LLC
> lindag at techcomplus dot com
> www.techcomplus.com
> 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144
> User guides, online help, FrameMaker and
> WebWorks ePublisher templates
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
> -----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
> _______________________________________________
>
>
> You are currently subscribed to Framers as lindag at techcomplus.com.
>
> Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com.
>
> To unsubscribe send a blank email to
> framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com
> or visit
> http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lindag%40techcomplus.com
>
> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit
> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
>
> _______________________________________________
>


-- 
Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com
 "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent
and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
 No disclaimers apply.
 DoD 358