Font Fiasco with FM 9 Book and Distiller

[Daniel Doornbos - PTU]

Hello Jim,

I have encountered this problem with earlier versions of FrameMaker.
It has not yet happened to me on FM9.
In my experience, if there is a font problem, it is caused by the fonts used in graphics.
Sometimes, the Distiller warning messages are misleading, so you have no idea what the problem is.

If Syed's suggestion does  not work, try this one...

First, when you print to a PostScript file, did you select Adobe PDF as your printer choice? 
Second, look at the content of pages 10 through 12.
If you have graphics on those pages, save a copy of your FM file, delete the graphics, and try printing to PostScript and distill to PDF again.

If those actions do not identify the problem, here is my method of washing a file: 
1. Save the text from the FM file to a .txt file.
2. Create a new FM file.
3.  Import the text from the .txt file into the new FM file.
4. Without applying formatting, print to a PostScript file and distill to PDF.
5. If successful, apply your formats, print to PS and distill again.
6. If successful, import your graphics, print to PS and distill again.

By the time you reach step 6, you know whether the problem was in the FM file or an imported graphic.
It is a lot of effort but it has never failed me.

Best wishes for your success!

Daniel 

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Pinkham, Jim
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 2:51 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Font Fiasco with FM 9 Book and Distiller

Hi, all,
 
I'm trying to get a book out on deadline, hitting a wall tonight, will have to revisit first thing in a.m.
 
Set-up:
FM 9.0 p255
Win XP Pro Ver 2002 SP3
Core 2 Duo E6750, 2.66 GH, 3.25 GB of RAM (according to System
Properties)
Default font:Arial
 
Here's the sequence of trouble:
 

*	Went to print book; Distiller stopped on pg. 10-11, in the Front
Matter; said it couldn't find Helvetica; font could not be embedded, and flushed out.
*	Washed all Files via MIF. Using Toolbox, I stripped out all
unused formats (we get a lot of Helvetica in some of our source docs from Germany); tried again with same result.
*	Tried global update "All Paragraph and Catalog Entries" to
convert any stray instances of Helvetical to Arial; same result. Also searched and replaced any stray Helvetica in callouts still in Frame (usually keep callouts with the graphic in Illy).
*	Exported all files via MIF. Using ReplaceText, changed every
instance of Helvetica in the MIF to Arial. Distiller coughed again; said this time it couldn't find Arial.

 
I know I have Arial, and I'm pretty sure I have Helvetica. I've been using FM 9 for about a month with no prior offenses.
What to do?
 
TIA for any ideas. I'm appending the Distiller log below:
 
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
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%%[Page: 2]%%
%%[Page: 3]%%
%%[Page: 4]%%
%%[Page: 5]%%
%%[Page: 6]%%
%%[Page: 7]%%
%%[Page: 8]%%
%%[Page: 9]%%
%%[Page: 10]%%
%%[ Error: Arial not found. Font cannot be embedded. ]%% %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: findfont ]%%
 
Stack:
/Font
/Arial
/_Arial
[39 /quotesingle 96 /grave 128 /Adieresis /Aring /Ccedilla /Eacute /Ntilde /Odieresis /Udieresis /aacute /agrave /acircumflex /adieresis /atilde /aring /ccedilla /eacute /egrave /ecircumflex /edieresis /iacute /igrave /icircumflex /idieresis /ntilde /oacute /ograve /ocircumflex /odieresis /otilde /uacute /ugrave /ucircumflex /udieresis /dagger /degree /cent /sterling /section /bullet /paragraph /germandbls /registered /copyright /trademark /acute /dieresis /.notdef /AE /Oslash /.notdef /plusminus /.notdef /.notdef /yen /mu /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /ordfeminine /ordmasculine /.notdef /ae /oslash /questiondown /exclamdown /logicalnot /.notdef /florin /.notdef /.notdef /guillemotleft /guillemotright /ellipsis /.notdef /Agrave /Atilde /Otilde /OE /oe /endash /emdash /quotedblleft /quotedblright /quoteleft /quoteright /divide /.notdef /ydieresis /Ydieresis /fraction /currency /guilsinglleft /guilsinglright /fi /fl /daggerdbl /periodcentered /quotesinglbase /quotedblbase /perthousand /Acircumflex /Ecircumflex /Aacute /Edieresis /Egrave /Iacute /Icircumflex /Idieresis /Igrave /Oacute /Ocircumflex /.notdef /Ograve /Uacute /Ucircumflex /Ugrave /dotlessi /circumflex /tilde /macron /breve /dotaccent /ring /cedilla /hungarumlaut /ogonek /caron]
 

%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%

 
 
 
 
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