TCS install; missing fonts

[Stuart Rogers]

On 22/04/2010 1:13 PM, Art Campbell wrote:
> If you're not using the Adobe PDF printer as your system default and you
> are using another physical printer, it's possible for the OS to latch on
> to those fonts, although they're not installed ont he system... which
> would explain why you can't find the files.
>
> Best solution is to specify the Adobe PDF printer as your default. You
> can do it at the system level or with a SetPrint script from
> http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm
>
> If you're already doing that, though, I'd bet on David's supposition....
>
> ***
> Another thing you want to be aware of, although I don't think it's an
> issue in this is that you're going to have to check and see if your
> existing fonts offer Unicode support; FM 7 didn't support Unicode, but
> FM 9 does. Trying to roll old non-unicode font files forward may be
> problematic....
>

Hi Art,
I installed Setprint immediately after installing TCS 2, and always have 
Adobe PDF as my default in FM.  Your point about Unicode is valid; I 
don't think my old Lucida was a Unicode font.  Now that TCS has 
obliterated it, I will have to choose a different font anyway, since the 
'new' Lucida is badly kerned and ugly.  Very rude of Adobe to trample my 
system like that, though.

Thanks to you and David for your input.

Stuart

>
>
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Stuart Rogers
> <srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com <mailto:srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com>>
> wrote:
>
>     Win XP SP3
>     FM 7.0 p579
>     TCS 2.0 (FM 9.0 p250)
>
>     I recently installed TCS and now when I open existing .fm files in
>     either FM 9 or FM 7, I get missing fonts messages.  I have made no
>     changes to my system's fonts, so I assume TCS has done so.  So far,
>     the "missing" fonts are simply variant names of existing fonts,
>     e.g., "can't find Lucida Bright Semi Bold, using Lucida Bright Demi
>     Bold".  Same thing for the italic variants, etc.
>
>     I searched my hard drive for "Lucida" and find dozens of copies of
>     these font files in Program Files subfolders called \Adobe, \Java,
>     and \Hewlett-Packard.  (But XP's Search and Void Software's
>     "Everything" search engine *don't* find the dozen or so entries that
>     exist in C:\Windows\Fonts.)
>
>     I've assumed I'm safe to use the usual method to get rid of the
>     'missing fonts' messages, but I'd like to know what exactly happened
>     here and why.  Anyone know?
>
>     Thanks,
>
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>     Stuart Rogers
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