Font issue in Framemaker 10, Windows 7, 64-bit

[Art Campbell]

Is the system default printer set to Adobe Acrobat (it should be)?



Art Campbell
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On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Tammy Van Boening <
tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com> wrote:

>  All,
>
> I am having a doozy of a time with fonts in Framemaker and I am hoping
> that if I provide a detailed description of the problem, someone can point
> me in the right direction. This >>SHOULD<< be Fonts 101, but I give. Here
> is the summary:
>
> ·       I have purchased four fonts directly from the font maker. The
> fonts are Breuer Text Regular, Breuer Text Regular Italic, Breuer Text
> Bold, and Breuer Text Bold Italic.
>
> ·       There are other fonts in this family with "Medium" in their
> names, such as Breuer Text Regular Medium, Breuer Text Medium Italic, etc.
>
>
> ·       There are 8 font styles in all in this family, and they are
> style-linked
>
> ·       I have purchased and installed only the four fonts that I listed
> in my first bullet. I have not ever installed any of the Medium fonts or
> any of the other fonts, so style-linking should not be an issue.
>
> ·       After installing these four fonts, I see this in my
> C:\Windows\Fonts directory - Medium, Medium Italic, Bold, and Bold
> Italic. Note that the Regular fonts are actually being renamed
> automatically to Medium upon installation. I did not do this manually.
>
> ·       When I open the top level Breuer Text font folder, I see four
> individual detailed font folders - one named Medium, one named Medium
> Italic, one named Bold and one named Bold Italic.
>
> ·       If I open either of the Medium folders, the file name in the
> title bar still reads as BreuerText-Regular. otf or
> BreuerTextItalic-Regular.
>
> ·       When I create a paragraph tag in FM named BodyItalic, I select
> Breuer Text as the Font Family, and then for the angle, I select Italic,
> which should just switch the Regular font with the Regular Italic font, but
> boom. . .  the weight is also set to Bold immediately.  For the weight
> characteristic, there is a Regular option, so I try to select that and
> click Update All, but the angle is immediately reset to Bold and I cannot
> change it. Anytime I try to set the angle for any paragraph tag that uses
> the Breuer text to Italic, FM automatically sets the weight to Bold as
> well.
>
> ·       I opened a Word doc., typed in some text in Breuer text, and then
> manually applied the Italic character. In Word, the text is only italicized. It
> is NOT bolded. I have to manually apply the Bold in Word.
>
> ·       If I use just Regular Breuer text in FM, and don't screw with the
> angle, the weight remains Regular. It does not get bolded.
>
> I have tried rebooting, clearing my font cache, rebooting again and I
> still this issue in Framemaker with this danged Breuer text. I tried
> uninstalling the Breuer text, clearing my font cache, reinstalling and
> still the same issue. The Regular text gets loaded and installed with
> "Medium" in the name in the Fonts directory and in FM., anytime I try to
> italicize a paragraph tag, it gets bolded as well.
>
> This is really screwing up my docs., obviously, as I don't want all
> italicized text to be bolded.
>
> Any and all advice is sincerely appreciated.
>
>
>
>  Tammy Van Boening
>
> Owner/Principal
>
> Spectrum Writing, LLC
>
> tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com
>
> www.spectrumwritingllc.com
>
> 303-840-1755
>
>
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