Font substitution

[Fred Ridder]

I posted a long and reasonably comprehensive discussion of this whole issue about a week and a half ago in response to a query from Pascale Stephenson with the subject "Unavailable fonts message - incorrect?‏". You might want to look that up in the list archive, or if neither the archive nor a Google site search is working, I can forward you a copy.

But to briefly address your specific issues:

One partial solution to the problem generating a PDF when some files throe missing fonts messages is to open all the files in the book *before* you attempt to create the PDF. That way you will have already dismissed all the warning messages and none will remain to interrupt the PDF generation process. But I refer to this as only a partial solution because it can cause problems with the embedding of fonts in the PDF.

The key to making the font substitution permanent is an option tucked away in the user preferences dialog: Remember missing font names. This option is enabled in a default FrameMaker installation, and what is does is to make the substitution for missing fonts on a *temporary* basis. While you are editing (or printing) the file, you will see the substituted fonts; but Frame remembers the original font specifications, and when you save the file Frame uses those *original* font names. To make the substitution permanently, you must disable the "Remember missing font names" preference*before* you open and resave the files. But you probably should re-enable the option once you are done fixing the specific set of files, because normally the "remember" behavior is very desirable.

-Fred Ridder

From: andrew.smith22 at baesystems.com
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Font substitution
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:04:09 +0000









Hi all
 
I’m using Frame V7.1, working on a set of legacy documents that have come from another machine in a different age.

 
Working within a book some of the files report missing fonts, an old chestnut I know. I can live with the fact that it’s substituting fonts but when I try to make a PDF of the book Frame reports that it cannot open the files, so it doesn’t
 make the PDF. There is really no scope for putting new fonts on the machine.
 
What strikes me as odd is that, despite me having opened these files and resaving them, Frame still reports the fonts as missing, so any substitutions being made do not seem to be recorded.
 
Manually changing the fonts in each format is not really an option as there are loads of formats and quite a few entries in the documents show the asterisk for overrides, so I don’t really want to go adjusting formats globally.
 
So the questions is this; is there a way of telling Frame to make the font substitution permanent once I’ve opened and resaved the files or is there another solution that I’m not aware of?
 
 		 	   		  
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