How to enter Unicode Character in FrameMaker 10?

Jeremy H. Griffith jeremy at omsys.com
Fri Aug 26 19:26:21 PDT 2011


On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:36:16 -0700, Karen Robbins <karendesign at gmail.com> wrote:

>I have been struggling with this in FM9. My document has a 
>Symbol-font arrow that goes wonky when I convert to PDF. I have tried 
>several tools and suggestions, including the FM hex input palette, to 
>enter the proper code, but none work--I just get a question mark in 
>place of the arrow. I am not skilled enough in Windows (7) to modify 
>a registry (Mac person here). Any help for the Windows-impaired?

Sounds like maybe the font you are using does not have
a glyph for the code point.  Try changing the font to
Arial Unicode MS, which does have that glyph, and see
if the symbol appears then.  (You could change the
font just for the one char, with a Character Format.)

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/



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