Zapfdingbats font replacement issue

[Robert Lauriston]

I couldn't get font substitution to work, so I just hacked Adobe Pi
Std with Type Light to add the bullet glyphs and map them to l and n.
Didn't work until I figured out I needed to reboot Windows to apply
the font change.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com> wrote:
> FM10, working with documents I inherited in which Zapf Dingbats was
> used for bullets. Opening one of those documents gives the message,
> "The 'Zapfdingbats' Font is not available. It will be replaced by
> 'AdobePiStd'." Bullets appear as question marks.
>
> ZapfDingbats BT is installed and appears in the FM font menus. If I
> change the Bullet character tag from Adobe Pi Std to ZapfDingbats BT,
> the bullets look right.
>
> The conversion is set in maker.ini as follows:
>
> Zapfdingbats, *,*= Adobe Pi Std,*,*
>
> I tried deleting that line, had no effect. I tried replacing it with
> the following, had no effect:
>
> Zapfdingbats, *,*= ZapfDingbats BT,*,*
>
> Is there some system-level way to fix this? It would be annoying to
> have to update the style in every document.