fonts in Frame

[Joel]

No, I've never had ATM on this machine.
I don't know what kind of video card I have, however, before IT messed with
my PC last week, the fonts on dispalyed just fine in Frame on the same
machine.
The .ini file has this in it:
FontDir=fminit\fonts
Should that point to the main Windows font folder instead?

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Dov Isaacs <isaacs at adobe.com> wrote:

> Joel,
>
> Your attachments did come through on the private copy I received (the list
> does strip attachments). Your description of the symptoms seems correct as
> evidenced by the images. InDesign does its own font rendering; FrameMaker
> has the fonts rendered by Windows itself.
>
> Some additional questions:
>
> (1)     Do you or did you ever have Adobe Type Manager installed on your
> system? Did you ever try to uninstall ATM? If so, such an uninstall will
> damage the ability of your computer to display Type 1 and possibly OpenType
> CFF
> fonts.
>
> (2)     What video card do you have? We've heard about problems with
> certain
> fonts when certain video card drivers are used.
>
>        - Dov
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joel [mailto:eleysium at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 10:25 AM
> > To: Dov Isaacs
> > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> > Subject: Re: fonts in Frame
> >
> > Thanks Dov,
> >
> > I deleted the fntcache and rebooted - no luck.
> > I've attached pictures to this e-mail, but perhaps the list will strip
> them out. Let me know if you
> > can't see them.
> > One picture shows text half Myriad Pro, half Minion in InDesign where the
> fonts look fine. The other
> > picture has the same text in Frame where the fonts are jagged, it seems
> that Frame is subsituting
> > Times NR and some Sans font for what should be there, so it looks
> terrible.
> >
>  > -----Original Message-----
> >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Dov Isaacs <isaacs at adobe.com> wrote:
> >> Joel,
> >>
> >> I've tried to create a new document in FrameMaker 8 (with all updates
> applied)
> >> using Myriad Pro, Myriad Pro Bold, Myriad Pro Semicondensed, and Myriad
> Pro
> >> Semicondensed Bold. I am running under Vista 32-bit and Vista 64-bit
> although
> >> that should not make a difference here. For better or worse, I was NOT
> able to
> >> see any anomalies whatsoever in terms of document display, print, and/or
> PDF
> >> creation with my sample document. You may try deleting the Windows font
> cache,
> >> rebooting, and trying edit of your document again.
> >>
> >> Anyone else seeing this issue? If so, under what conditions?
> >>
> >> Otherwise, please send me a sample of the document showing the problem
> and/or
> >> screen shots showing the rendering problems you are experiencing.
> >>
> >>        - Dov
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Joel
> > > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 8:47 AM
> > >
> > > I'm asking this again because I've had no replies:
> > >
> > > I'm on Frame 8, Win XP. The Adobe fonts are showing up terribly in
> Frame.
> > > Myriad Pro, for example, is fragged and looks awful. Yet it is
> installed in
> > > my Windows\Fonts folder and when I PDF the FM file the fonts are just
> fine
> > > in my PDF. But the appearance in Frame is ugly and driving me nuts.
> This
> > > just happened when I was migrated to a new network environment.
> > >
> > > Any ideas on what is going on? Frame was installed by someone with
> admin
> > > rights on my PC, but I don't see why that would affect font display.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > JW
>
>