Awful Letter Spacing After Replacing a Font

[Reng, Dr. Winfried]

Hi Nancy,

I had to change all fonts last week. I also noticed that the letters
were too densely packed. However, everything was fine, after
I closed the file and opened it again. I did not re-import formats
or updated formats.

If this would not help in your case, I could imagine that also
a MIF wash might have helped.

Best regards

Winfried

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 5:40 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Awful Letter Spacing After Replacing a Font
> 
> Hi, all.
> 
> I've just discovered the nifty Fonts pod in FrameMaker 10 (we jumped from
> 7.1 to 10). Just in time, too, since we've been told to change the body text
> from Times New Roman to Arial.
> 
> I'm using FM 10 in a Windows 7 environment.
> 
> I replaced all instances of Times New Roman in a chapter with Arial. The
> change was instantaneous and the paragraph designer listed Arial as the
> default font for each affected tag. Wowee! I see that I can also do this
> replacement across ALL open book files. So I can change Times to Arial in the
> blink of an eye, across the entire book.
> 
> However, the letter spacing in the replaced text is awful.
> 
> To fix it, each paragraph tag that has a changed font has to be reapplied. I've
> used the Global Update within a single file for this, but it still has to be done
> tag by tag, file by file, doesn't it?. This will be a tedious process for a 100-page
> document distributed across 7 files.
> 
> Is there a way to do this faster? Within FrameMaker's native capabilities, if
> possible . . .
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --Nancy