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class=551382013-08052012>Yes, thanks the amazing (free) SetPrint plugin, you
never have to worry about messing that up again.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Fred
Ridder<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 08, 2012 9:01 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
rshell@iafrica.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: Some
suggestions for improvement of FrameMaker<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Rob Shell wrote:<BR> <BR>
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<DIV id=SkyDrivePlaceholder></DIV>> 12. Get rid of the "The font has changed"
message. It hasn't, it won't.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Sorry, Rob, but you're a little off base on this one. What FrameMaker tells
you is not that "the font has changed", but instead is that "the font
*information* has changed". It only tells you this when the font
metadata--specifically the font metrics information that comes from the Windows
printer driver--has changed when you change to a different printer, and
therefore a different driver with its own font metrics data. Admittedly,
the differences in metrics data (high-precision dimensions for each glyph and
for inter-glyph spacing) are small and subtle, but they can add up to enought
that some text lines that are very close to the maximum line length may need to
break differently. And a line break changing can potentially cause the length of
the paragraph to change. And a change in the length of a paragraph can
potentially cause a difference in how that page (and all subsequent pages in the
chapter) breaks. Anyone who has opened a precisely laid out Word document to
another computer only to find mangled tables, page breaks in the wrong places,
and a different page count for the document will understand that a change
in font metrics *can* affect the document, and will appreciate that FrameMaker
at least warns you about the possibility.</DIV>
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<DIV>Adobe did make one major improvement in regard to the changed font metrics
issue a few releases back, when they allowed FrameMaker to set its own
default printer independent of the Windows default printer. If you always use
this default printer (e.g., "Adobe PDF") and never change to a different printer
driver (e.g., making a PDF that you then print from Acrobat when you need a hard
copy rather than sending the document directly to the printer from FrameMaker),
you will never again be b othered by the "font information has changed" warning
message. </DIV>
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<DIV>-Fred Ridder</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>