Font issues

[Art Campbell]

In addition to Mike's excellent analysis... depending on the age and type
of system the original was created on, it's quite possible that the font
whatever it is (and I agree with Mike, it ain's TNR), is a system font,
from Apple, Windows XP, or some other vendor. For instance, if your FM tag
calls for Time, Times NR, or another vendor's version would be substituted
if Times isn't available -- and vice versa -- if TNR isn't available,
something will be substituted.

Second... if you have Acrobat, you should be able to see what font is in
use for a passage, what fonts are embedded, the type of system the file was
built on and other info about how it was created. That should help you
track down what's actually happening.

Art

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On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Mike Wickham <info at mikewickham.com> wrote:

> 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<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?
>>
>>
>
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