[Framers] Framers Digest, Vol 142, Issue 17

[Mike Wickham]

I'm not sure if I'm remembering this correctly, but I think "Bolded" 
(rather than "Bold") is FrameMaker's way of saying that no actual bold 
font was available for use. Rather, someone used the Bold button in the 
toolbar (or selected Bolded in a paragraph or character designer) to 
apply a fake bold characteristic to text that uses the Symbol font. If I 
remember right, the Bold button will work as expected, if an actual bold 
font exists-- but if the font doesn't exist, then bold ("bolded") is 
simulated.

In the old days, of dot matrix printers, bold could be simulated on 
screen and in print by double displaying/printing text, with the second 
printing offset by a pixel to make the text look fat. Likewise, italics 
could be faked by incrementally offsetting each row of pixels in the 
text to make it appear to slant. It was ugly, but worked. When there is 
no actual bold or italic font, the Bold and Italic buttons attempt to do 
this. They mimic the effect on screen.  Note that this doesn't work with 
all fonts. So you may have the Bolded style applied, but not be able to 
see any bold text.

But displaying a fake attribute on screen doesn't mean that it will 
print, and it certainly won't work in a PDF, since the needed font is 
missing. Best practice is never to use the Bold or Italic buttons, since 
you may not know if you have an actual bold or italic font to back it 
up. You don't know what you will get. So always use an actual paragraph 
or character format to apply bold or italic style-- and don't choose 
"Bolded" or "Obliqued" if it pops up as an option, rather than true Bold 
or Italic or Oblique.

Anyway, if this is the case, you might be able to use Find/Change to fix 
it. Select Find: Character Format. Then, in the dialog that pops up, use 
Shift+F8 to set everything to "As is," then select Weight: Bolded. Click 
Set to close the dialog. Then click Find to find text that has the 
bolded attribute. Remove the bolded attribute. If you want bold, you 
will need to get a bold version of the font in question.

Hopefully, someone who understands this better will chime in if I got it 
wrong.

Mike Wickham

On 1/29/2018 4:54 PM, Catherine Forrest wrote:
> Stefan, SymbolBolded is reported as missing even though the docs have no bolded symbols. The Symbol character tag with no weight is applied.
> SymbolBolded is not in the Fonts pod. I've searched for it with no luck. It's not on the body, reference, or master pages. I've even looked at one of the MIF files and didn't see Symbol Bolded anywhere.
>