Font issues

[Mike Wickham]

The font is different in those two samples, and neither one of them 
appears to be Times New Roman.

So check to be sure you are using the font that you think you are. Also, 
make sure that Adobe PDF is set as your default printer when working in 
FM, or the PDF output may not match what you see in FM. The print driver 
can affect the fonts available. The free SetPrint utility will set Adobe 
PDF as the default printer, without altering the default for any other 
Windows programs. (http://sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm)

Make sure your font is actually installed on your computer. If you have 
a printer besides Adobe PDF set as the default in FM, then FM can see 
and use its "printer resident" fonts-- that is, fonts that are 
hard-wired inside the printer and available for printing _on that 
printer_, but not necessarily installed on the computer where they would 
be available to embed in a PDF. If the font isn't actually installed on 
the computer-- usually in the \windows\fonts folder-- the PDF will be 
forced to substitute with something else.

Make sure your font is set to embed in the PDF. If you have Acrobat, you 
use Acrobat Distiller to do this, editing the appropriate settings file. 
The High Quality Print settings file has all fonts set to embed, unless 
someone altered it.

You also might trying printing to the Adobe PDF virtual printer, rather 
than using Save as PDF. You didn't mention which FrameMaker version you 
have, but Save as PDF was highly unreliable in older versions-- so much 
so that all the gurus warned to avoid it.

Anyway, those are some starting places to look.

Mike Wickham

On 7/18/2013 6:29 PM, Chris Coggins wrote:
> Attached are two screen caps of a portion of text: 1 is the resultant 
> PDF from a Framemaker  file recreating a source document, the other is 
> from the source document itself. The fonts are the same on both 
> documents (10pt TNR), so why do they come out looking so small in the 
> frame document?
>
> Frame font is TNR 10pt, 0% Spread, 100% Stretch, 12 pt Line Spacing. 
> PDF was generated via save-as PDF command, High Quality Print setting 
> in both frame and distiller.
>
> What should I do differently to make the PDF from Framemaker match the 
> source?
>