Frame 9 and ZapfDingbats

[Lea Rush]

Hi Ealasaid,

My first guesss would be that the Unicode support in F9 is the culprit. I'm guessing that you're using one of these characters?

❃	2743	HEAVY TEARDROP-SPOKED PINWHEEL ASTERISK
❄	2744	SNOWFLAKE
❅	2745	TIGHT TRIFOLIATE SNOWFLAKE
❆	2746	HEAVY CHEVRON SNOWFLAKE
❇	2747	SPARKLE
❈	2748	HEAVY SPARKLE
❉	2749	BALLOON-SPOKED ASTERISK
❊	274A	EIGHT TEARDROP-SPOKED PROPELLER ASTERISK
❋	274B	HEAVY EIGHT TEARDROP-SPOKED PROPELLER ASTERISK

(from http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/dingbats.html)

I now use unicode codes to enter a mu character and several others, thanks to an excellent discusson on this list a few weekes ago. Press ALT+(four digit code, no parenthesis) to enter the character.

Hope this helps,
Lea


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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ealasaid A. Haas
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:16 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Frame 9 and ZapfDingbats

Hi, everyone!

I've recently switched to Frame 9 at work and have been able to use the 
templates I designed in Frame 7.1 without much trouble. The one issue 
I'm having that I haven't managed to solve so far is a weird one.

I use a large orange asterisk in a floating text box next to Note 
paragraphs, to call attention to them. To create this asterisk, I use 
ZapfDingbats font on a "]" character. Since switching to Frame 9, the 
wrong symbol is displaying. I've checked everything - the paragraph 
style, the character style, I've even tried switching to a different 
font and then back to ZapfDingbats, I've tried reentering the ]... 
nothing works! It's displaying the wrong thing. It still works in Frame 
7.1, I checked -- so it's not an issue with the font itself. (It works 
in Word, too: a "]" becomes the nice asterisk I like when I use 
ZapfDingbats font on it.)

Anybody have similar issues?

I know I could just make a graphic, but I would like to figure out why 
this isn't working.

Thanks a bunch!

Ealasaid Haas

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