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

[Dov Isaacs]

Robert,

Please see the response I sent out a few minutes ago. There is nothing wrong with the Adobe Pi font, but rather, there is a nasty mapping issue that should have been resolved in FrameMaker if they in fact had a .ini file setting mapping Type 1 Zapf Dingbats to Adobe Pi or any other OpenType version of Zapf Dingbats.

And quite frankly, I think it is a hell of a lot of chutzpa on your part to label the designers of Adobe Pi as "morons." The font simply follows the international specifications for both OpenType fonts and Unicode encoding. How does that make them "morons?" Likewise, you may not like the UI makeover of FrameMaker (maybe I don't either), but that doesn't make those who designed and implemented it "morons."

            - Dov

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 9:19 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!


Adobe Pi's character map is different than the Type 1 Zapf that used

to be included with FrameMaker, so without the old font the solid,

hollow, and square bullets in the template I inherited showed up as

question marks in my online help and PDF.



Maybe Adobe Pi was designed by the same morons who did the UI makeover

in FrameMaker 9.



On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Dov Isaacs <isaacs at adobe.com<mailto:isaacs at adobe.com>> wrote:

>

> 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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