Font Fiasco with FM 9 Book and Distiller

[Art Campbell]

The Hotfix, which applies to all PS printers including Acrobat, is
required to get your system up to a stable baseline from which you can
trouble shoot other problems....

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=952909

Art Campbell
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain
(Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote:
> I think (but not sure) you are seeing that "Font Cache" XP Pro problem that is resolved with a particular Microsoft hotfix. The specific hotfix number has been posted to this news list before - maybe you can search the archives for it.
>
> Z
>
> -----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 ]%%
> %%[Page: 1]%%
> %%[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 /quo
>  tedblbase /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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