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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014-Jan-20 5:43 PM, Tammy Van
Boening wrote:<br>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font color="#17365D"
face="Calibri">All,</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font color="#17365D"
face="Calibri">A client is insisting on using a proprietary
font in the source FM files despite my best attempts to keep
them vanilla with Times New Roman and Arial. They</font></span><span
lang="en-us"> <font color="#17365D" face="Calibri">have
supplied me with two font sets for this font - one is
Regular weight (to be used for any paragraph tags that are
non-Heading tags) and a Bold weight (to be used for any
paragraph tags that are Headi</font></span><span
lang="en-us"><font color="#17365D" face="Calibri">ng tags). I
have several character formats in my catalog that I want to
be able to continue to use. One of these tags is Emphasis.
All properties for the tag are set to As Is with the
exception of the angle, which I have set to Italic. </font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font color="#17365D"
face="Calibri">When I apply this tag to any paragraph tags
that are non-Headi</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
color="#17365D" face="Calibri">ng tags (i.e., the tags use
the regular weight version of this proprietary font), the
tag is apparently not applied. The font angle does not
change, and in the lower left corner of the page identifying
what tags are being used, I see</font></span><span
lang="en-us"> <font color="#17365D" face="Calibri">Emphasis
with an asterisk in front of it (*Emphasis). I thought that
maybe I had corrupted the tag somehow, so I applied the same
tag to some text that used simply good old Times New Roman
font in the same document, a</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
color="#17365D" face="Calibri">nd voila, the text was
immediately italicized and the tag showed Emphasis without
an asterisk.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font color="#17365D"
face="Calibri">I have not really ever had to use proprietary
fonts before in a FM source file, so I am obviously missing
some</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font color="#17365D"
face="Calibri">thing behind the use of such fonts that is
preventing character tags from being applied as expected. </font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font color="#17365D"
face="Calibri">Any guidance/assistance is greatly
appreciated.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font color="#17365D"
face="Calibri">Regards,</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font color="#17365D"
face="Calibri">TVB</font></span><span lang="en-us"> </span></p>
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My first guess is that the Regular font set does not contain the
glyphs for italics -- especially given that the client has provided
a completely separate file for Bold. So FM is attempting to apply
the tag, but it can't change the appearance because the needed
characters don't exist. You might be able to redefine the tag to
use "Obliqued" as the angle, and FM will try to fake italics by
sloping the roman glyphs. But the true solution would be to purchase
the italic font file required.<br>
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HTH,<br>
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Stuart Rogers
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Phoenix Geophysics Limited
3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3
Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325
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