missing fonts after changing computers;customize maker.ini file?

[Art Campbell]

The easiest way to fix things up would be to either network to your
old PC or pull the C drive from it and install it as an additional (a
slave, not the master) drive in your new machine.

Then perform whatever font installs you need to do to get all the
fonts from the old machine installed properly.

This would also be the easy way to snarf your old maker.ini file and
any other plug ins and odd bits that you may have forgotten.

***
You don't mention setting the Adobe PDF logical printer as your system
default, which is a good thing to do. It eliminates seeing references
to fonts that may be resident on a physical pritner but which aren't
actually installed on your system.

***
I agree almost all of Richard's post, except his antipathy to ATM
Lite. It works fine on XP systems, and it still my PS font manager of
choice, although both Adobe and Microsoft agree that it "isn't
required." But it works for me, has worked for years, and continues to
work on multiple systems. It's especially useful to corral older PS
font files.

Art





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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Scott Penney <spe at conceptsnrec.com> wrote:
> I need to reset my fonts for a new computer; this is especially important for bullets and some symbols. How can I configure Frame so that it uses the fonts that it used on the old machine?
>
> I'm using FM 7.1 on Windows XP Professional (Version 2002, Service Pack 3), and I need to restore my font settings so that FM can use Helvetica for some paragraph formats and ZapfDingbats for square bullets and other symbols. Currently ZapfDingbats is replaced by Times New Roman, Helvetica by Arial, and Times by Times Roman.
>
> So far, I have downloaded the free Adobe Type Manager from the Abobe Website. Both Helvetica, Times, and Zapf Dingbats appear in the ATM window in the PSFONTS folder.
>
> However, when I open a Frame document, I get the missing fonts message followed by the Framemaker Console List with the list of unavailable fonts followed by the fonts that replace them.
>
> Furthermore, in the Family drop-down list, Default tab of the Paragraph Designer dialog box, the missing fonts appear in grey.
>
> Some years ago, when I was using FM 6 on Windows 2000, I seem to recall changing the font settings in the maker.ini file; that recollection may be unreliable.
>
> I tried to follow the Customizing FrameMaker manual for locating the maker.ini files and changing font profiles, but couldn't find the corresponding folders on my machine (the manual indicates UserProfile\ApplicationData\Adobe\FrameMaker\7.0).
>
> Thanks
>
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