The Mystery Wrap

[Stuart Rogers]

Gagne, Bernard (Bolton) wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> I suspect Distiller is changing your Helvetica to Times New Roman when
> you PDF because you do not actually have the Helvetica font on your
> system. It is likely residing on your physical printer and Windows is
> making available in your Frame font menu. When you print to Adobe PDF,
> or save as PDF, it cannot embed a font that is not on your system. Since
> the default font for missing fonts is Times New Roman, that is what you
> see in the finished PDF.
> You need to make Adobe PDF your default printer in FrameMaker. Even if
> you had Helvetica installed on your system, the wrapping issue might
> persist. This is due to the difference in font metrics between Distiller
> and the physical printer. Each interpret font widths and letter spacing
> differently, causing lines to wrap unexpectedly.
> 

Frank,

In addition to Bernie's comments, you might want to install the SetPrint 
plug-in from Sundorne, which will make the Distiller printer your 
default within FM, without changing it in your other applications. 
(Free and highly recommended.)

http://sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm

Alternatively, you may be able to change a setting in your physical 
printer's driver to prevent it from reporting its fonts to Windows.  Our 
old Lexmark had such a setting, but I'm sure it varies in 
name/location/availability by manufacturer and model.

You also asked how to "change all fonts in every [tag] to Arial in one 
fell swoop."

The only way I know of is to save the file as MIF, open in a text 
editor, and do a search/replace, then save and reopen in FM.  HOWEVER, 
you must take into account the possible variations in your font names 
for bold, bolded, oblique, obliqued, etc.  There's room for much 
complication, depending on the fonts.  The names must be exactly 
correct, or FM will report fonts not found.

HTH,

-- 
Stuart Rogers
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Phoenix Geophysics Limited
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