The "Zapfdingbats" Font Family is not available. (Was: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!)

[Dov Isaacs]

To be very clear, Adobe has not shipped a copy of Zapf Dingbats with FrameMaker since FrameMaker 5.5.6 if I recall correctly.

However, in fact, every printer with Adobe PostScript 3 still ships with a host-installable Type 1 (both for Windows and Macintosh) versions of Zapf Dingbats.

The real issue appears to be not whether Adobe ships this font under what circumstances, but rather, whether the users install the font (assuming they have use of an Adobe PostScript 3 device) and a likely bug/omission in FrameMaker by which a font substitution is made without making a character remapping to Unicode at the same time.

            - Dov

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Simon BUCH
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 1:16 AM
To: Craig Ede
Cc: framers
Subject: The "Zapfdingbats" Font Family is not available. (Was: Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!)


Dear Craig,



I experienced this same issue as my company's product reads in *alot* of

XML content, and one of the customers panics whenever they see _any_

FrameMaker 'console' messages.



The mapping appears to be made in an entity formats document:

     "C:\Program Files\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker10\Structure\entfmts"

which has a rather historic comment that "FrameMaker+SGML copies

character formats and user variables from this file while importing

SDATA entities from SGML documents".



This isn't the first occurrence of where Adobe ships files that

reference fonts that are no longer supplied, and probably won't be the last.



// Simon BUCH
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