Unavailable fonts

[Lizak, Samantha]

Richard suggests just turning off the "Remember missing font names". In
the past, I have had unavailable fonts turn up in legacy documents where
that trick did not work. 

If the font is in an default paragraph format of an unused table type,
save the file as .mif and search on the font name. You can either change
it there, or simply remove the table type definition from the mif. 

If you save as .mif and the font does not show up, chances are it is in
an imported graphic. Some types seem to carry font information in their
metadata, even though the text is not separately selectable. The
fast-and-dirty workaround (because of course this always turns up when
you are trying to meet a deadline) is to take a screen capture of the
graphic and replace the offender. (Captures from PDF usually look better
than captures from the FM itself, if you have a decent PDF around.)

Incidentally, I am guessing you want to run this check before opening
the file because you have a script that batch processes the files. (We
do, too.) If there is a way to do this, the guys that maintain our batch
scripts haven't lit on it; the scripts exit with an informative error
instead. And that is why I have gotten good at hunting these things
down. :-)

Regards-

Sam.

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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Combs,
Richard
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 9:15 AM
To: Kristen Abbott; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Unavailable fonts

Kristen Abbott wrote:
 
> I'm sure someone has posted a response to this question, but
> unfortunately the archive isn't searchable. (Hint...)

You can search the archives using Google. Enter "search string
site:lists.frameusers.com" (sans quotes). 
 
> Anyway, I'd like to know of a way to remove and replace all the
> unavailable fonts in a FM file *before* I open it and see the "There
are
> unavailable fonts" message. My only options at that point are to click
> OK, in which case it does the replacements, or Cancel, in which case
it
> doesn't open the file. Even if I let it do the replacements, the FM
> Console window shows that it replaced FontX with FontY. How can I get
> rid of FontX ahead of time?

You want to magically modify the file without opening it? No can do. :-)

You can get rid of FontX with the file open by finding where it's
hiding. The archives have lots of detailed info on that, but some of the
"popular" hiding spots for fonts are the reference pages and the pgf
tags used in the table format defaults. But before spending lots of time
searching, see below.
 
> Even though I have changed all the Para tags to use only available
> fonts, the message appears every time I open the file, regardless.
> Annoying.

If you're certain you want to banish FontX forever, and permanently
replacing it with FontY is OK, go to File > Preferences > General and
turn off Remember Missing Font Names. The next time you open the file
with FontX, FM will display a slightly different unavailable fonts
dialog asking you if it's OK to permanently replace FontX with FontY. If
you click OK, FontX is gone for good. 

If this sounds appealing, but you'd rather replace FontX with FontZ,
that can be done by modifying the unknown to known fonts section of the
maker.ini file. The Customizing FrameMaker manual has info on doing
that. 

HTH!

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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