Zapf Dingbats mystery

[Steve Rickaby]

At 08:12 -0800 24/2/09, Les Smalley wrote:

>Does your colleague actually have the Zapf Dingbat font installed?  Did this happen in FM 6 also or did the dingbat characters display correctly?

Everything worked as expected in FrameMaker 6, as I understand it.

>Do any error messages appear in the FM console window when opening the document, especially a message to the effect that the Dingbat font is not available and another font (such as Times New Roman) will be used?

He says not, but I will double-check. It was the apparent absence of such messages that mystified me.

>I will guess that this is the case, and when he sends the document back to you who does have the font, it opens normally.  This is a feature of FrameMaker - it can make a temporary font substitution so editing can proceed, but when opened on a system with the correct typefaces available the file will show them.

Right. I'll check. Thanks.

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Steve