I hardly use FrameMaker these days, but as I recall, Times can hide on
reference pages and master pages, which require a separate search from
body pages. Times may also hide in imported objects. Another place that
unexpected fonts hide is in table titles. You insert a new table, but
don't need a title on it, so you turn the title off. But it's still
hiding there with an assigned font attached. (FM uses Times New Roman as
default there.) Finally, I think I remember that, if you print
registration marks, AdobePDF chooses Times as the font to print them.
There's nothing you can do about it, but I wouldn't think that would
cause reflow.
The most common cause of reflow , though, is not having AdobePDF set as
the default printer. If it's not set, then FM uses the font character
spacing of the driver for the printer that is set, but changes it when
you create the PDF. I'm sure that's not news to you.
Regarding Calibri reflowing, is it possible that the document could be
using a printer resident version of the font, then when you switch to
AdobePDF to print, it might be picking up a different, installed version
of the font instead? Again, that would assume that you don't have
AdobePDF as default printer. Looking in printer properties, there is an
entry for "TrueType Font" that lets you choose between "Download as
Softfont" or "Substitute with Device Font." The first is preferable
because it prevents substitutions with a font that might have an
identical name, but different metrics.
BTW, I am assuming that by reflow, you mean words move from one line to
another, changing lines and paragraph layout. But, if your issue is only
a reflow of line length, there is also a maker.ini setting,
"DisplayUsingPrinterMetrics=On" that affects the placement of words on
the screen. It lets you choose between displaying characters optimally
(using the optimal number of pixels), at the expense of line length.
There are not enough pixels on screen to perfectly display characters
and the spacing between them, so FM has to either fudge the spacing
between them or fudge the line length.
When set to "On", the spacing between characters will not be accurate,
and the characters themselves might look a little rougher, but the
length of the line of characters will be accurate and everything will
print its best and with the layout you expect. When set to "Off," FM
optimizes the characters for clarity on screen at the expense of line
length. So lines of typed characters, at times, might even extend beyond
the margin, even though they won't print that way. If you are not
justifying text, you might not even notice this because you expect a
ragged right-hand margin. When you print, the printer has many more dpi
and gets it all right—but line lengths will not be what you saw on
screen. So "On" gives a closer preview of how the document will print.
"Off" makes characters look best on screen, but doesn't care so much
about how lines look.
I can't believe that I wrote all that. I miss Framemaker!
Mike Wickham
On 8/24/2023 8:26 AM, r...@rickquatro.com wrote:
I am saving a FrameMaker document to PDF and I get this message at the
Console:
The "Times" Font is not available.
"Times New Roman" will be used in this session.
It is causing the document to reflow. The font is not Times or Times New
Roman but Calibri. Querying the properties in FrameMaker and Acrobat show
that they are both Calibri 9 point. I have seen this message in the past,
but the reflow is a big problem for this project. Is there a setting that
will give me an exact FrameMaker to PDF text match?
Rick
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