More Font Warnings

[Fred Ridder]

Here's an interesting twist on this, which happened to me personally.

I had a couple of files that in a large multi-author specification document that persistently gave me unavailable fonts messages, even after opening and saving the files with the "remember missing font names" option turned off. The FrameMaker console messages reported that the offending fonts were two Asian-language fonts, which made a certain amount of sense because the offending files had been worked on by a Chinese-speaking engineer. 

I looked in all the usual places: paragraph and character catalogs; master pages and reference pages; variables, table formats, and cross-reference formats. To eliminate vector graphics as possible culprits (raster graphics contain only patterns of pixels--no fonts), I removed all of them from a copies of the files, and still no joy. 

At that point I figured I'd waste a little more time and search the MIF.  Imagine my surprise when UltraEdit turned up *zero* instances of either font name (or any significant part of either name) anywhere in the MIF file.  Apparently, the MIF export filter recognized the font names as extraneous or anomalous and stripped them out of the file.  All I had to do is open the MIF file and re-save it in FrameMaker binary format, and I was good to go. 

So the bottom line is, if turning off "remember" doesn't work, and you can't find the unavailable fonts in the FrameMaker file, try a MIF wash as the next step before spending any time searching the MIF file and figuring out the syntax well enough to delete the font references without breaking anything.

Fred Ridder

From: Syed.Hosain at aeris.net
To: karendesign at gmail.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:13:36 -0700
Subject: RE: More Font Warnings

Simplest thing to do is a MIF output and check that file (using a text editor or grep) to find the unused font(s) … they can hide in all kinds of places. J I have even seen documents where the writer made the text color “white” instead of deleting it <argh!> – invisible on the screen since the background of the book was white! Z From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Karen Robbins
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 10:10 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: More Font Warnings I double-checked all our table styles and master and reference pages. The font list in the Fonts pod/palette did not change for any of them, and any text or cell I clicked showed the correct font(s) in the paragraph designer. Even mapping tables.

I could just turn off the warnings, but my goal is to once-and-for-all eliminate inconsistencies in these files! If there really is a rogue font, I want to remove it.

--Karen
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