Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

[Craig Ede]

Dov,

I didn't initiate this conversation, but I'd like to chime in. 

Your points are well taken, but a problem I had with the Adobe PI substitution was that simple bullets were coming across as question marks in my PDFs. That would indicate a mapping problem that is pretty obvious.

Also, you might want to tell the Framemaker team that whenever I open a new DITA document in FrameMaker I get the following messages in the FrameMaker console:

The "Zapfdingbats" Font Family is not available.
  "Adobe Pi Std" will be used in this session.
The "Zapfdingbats Regular" Font is not available.
  "AdobePiStd" will be used in this session.

If Adobe Pi Std is not a problem, maybe they should update the DITA templates for the next release and remove the source of this error. That is, unless Zapf-Dingbats is somehow part of the DITA standard (which really can't be true). The fewer the error messages the more likely we are to see critical errors.

Thanks for all your insights.

Craig
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> From: isaacs at adobe.com 
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com 
> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:07:05 -0800 
> Subject: RE: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly 
> off-topic, but related in a way! 
> 
> 
> Exactly what is the problem you have with Adobe Pi? Adobe Pi was 
> designed to serve as a substitute for Zapf Dingbats originally for 
> Acrobat and Reader and then for other Adobe applications. Although the 
> design of each of the glyphs is not identical, Adobe Pi does do a 
> fairly good job as a substitute and in some cases, the glyphs are much 
> more modern looking than Zapf Dingbat’s highly dated look.  		 	   		  
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