FM10 - font error

[Fred Ridder]

I just wanted to amplify on some of the obscure places where unavailable font specifications can lurk:
-Master pages and Reference pages. These are not searched when you search from the Body page view; you have to search them explicitly.
-Paragraph formatting in unused (non-instantiated) table formats. FM retains the formatting specs for each cell in the heading row and the first body row for every table format; whether or not the table format is used in the document, the font specs are still "used" in the file. 
-WMF or EMF graphics. These graphics file formats embed the name of the font that was used, but not the font itself.
-EPS graphics that were not created with the fonts embedded
 
Finally, a real gotcha. A few years back (in the FM7/FM8 era, if I recall correctly) I worked on a cooperatively authored specification document. One of the authors had his system set up for Chinese language use, and whenever he saved a file in .fm format, it wound up with some fragment of code that specified a Chinese font that nobody else had. The gotcha was that I was never able to find the fragment, because the process of saving the .fm file to MIF to allow detailed examination actually *removed* the errant fragment. So doing a "MIF wash" (saving to MIF and then converting the MIF back to .fm file format) became another part of the generalized solution to a "missing fonts" problem with a file, and the *only* solution that worked in that particular case.
 
-Fred Ridder
 



Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 08:14:38 -0400
From: kbenson at pegtype.com
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: FW: FM10 - font error


If you have to deal with the missing font, you have two choices: load the font, or find the font usage and change it.

Missing font usages can lurk in such unsuspected places as a deleted paragraph format in a table header cell with the table header turned off. These can be very difficult to find in the binary fm file. For instance, you could go through every table, turn the table header on, type some copy in each cell, and see if it exposes some old paragraph format usages you thought you'd gotten rid of many years ago. These are easy to find in MIF, though. Export to MIF, open in Notepad, search for Times, replace with the font of your choice.
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type
www.pegtype.comOn 10/19/2012 10:06 PM, William W. Saylor, PE wrote:





 
 


From: William W. Saylor, PE [mailto:wsaylor at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 6:05 PM
To: 'framers at lists.framerusers.com'
Subject: FM10 - font error
 
I am using FM10 on a book project and have inherited some older (FM7?) files that were exchanged using the .mif format. Somewhere there must be a “Times” font called out, which is no longer available. When I open a single chapter there is no problem – just an error message saying Times New Roman is used instead. However, when I put the chapters in a book and use the document>formatting>number command to set each chapter I get an error that FM10 can do nothing because of the previous error.
 
I have searched the document, all tags etc. and can find no reference to or use of Times. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Bill
 
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