> > Suppose you have to work with a document or book that uses >> fonts you do not have: you manually substitute fonts you do >> have, *and* tell FrameMaker to forget the missing ones, to >> get rid of all the irritating error messages. <snip> > >Well, you shouldn't have to manually substitute fonts. If you can live >with the alerts, Remember Missing Font Names takes care of the problem. >If not, you can make the appropriate substitutions automatic (at least >on the Windows side) with the proper entries in the Font Options portion >of the maker.ini file.
You are of course right in your first point, but the issue is that of working with a book with many chapters for many weeks: the accumulated time wasted clicking the 'Ok' button is considerable, not to mention the irritation factor. For you second point, yes, for sure - but I'm on a Mac. >The trick, of course, is coming up with the proper substitutions. See >the manuals (PDFs) _Customizing FrameMaker_ and _Working on Multiple >Platforms_ for hints, but they aren't as clear and complete as one might >hope. :-} I looked. My brain fried. > > This discovery came about due to variations in the names of >> Times New Roman fonts between Mac and PC platforms >> (TimesNewRomanPS, TimesNewRomanPSMT). > >You can probably resolve a name variation like this with an entry in the >[WindowsToFrameFontAliases] section of maker.ini. Yup - if I had a maker.ini. >The hard part is figuring out the right names to use. It would be nice >if there were a list of FrameFont names somewhere, with their common >Windows and Mac equivalents, but I havn't seen one. That would be good, yes. In Another Part of the Forest, I'm facing the same issues with Frutigers. >...[loads of good stuff] > >That's the theory, anyway... :-) Thanks for the update. As so often with FrameMaker, there are many ways of skinning the cat. -- Steve _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
