Well I appreciate that. It seems there are half a dozen places you can go to tell Frame what you want relative to font usage. It's never really clear to me which one of those is in control. I did manage to finally get Frame to stop pestering me about having to substitute for Times here, but when I took my book home to work on, Frame started throwing errors for fonts I've never included, intended, touched, or otherwise had on my system. I must have wasted a couple of hours there trying to make Frame behave and stop throwing error messages at me, but I never did find the source of its displeasure with my setup there. I'll have a look at that custom file on that machine - it could be what is instigating the angst.
Steve Cavanaugh Sr. Technical Writer NAT Seattle Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Lynne A. Price [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:00 AM To: Steve Cavanaugh; Noah Evans Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: font "obsession" (was structured import and pgftag fonts) At 07:10 AM 10/17/2006, Steve Cavanaugh wrote: > Frame's idiotic obsession with the >Times font is beginning to really annoy me. Steve, You haven't told us what operations you are performing that cause FM to use the unwanted fonts, but the software does not rely on any particular fonts. There are, however, a few configuration files that may be causing whatever symptoms are annoying you. For example, on Windows, there's a folder called fminit within your main FM directory (usually, c:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker 7.x). In the fminit folder, there's a file called custom that is the basis for new blank paper documents (including Portrait and Landscape). FM won't let you open this file, but you can rename it, edit it, save it, and then change the name back to the original name. Changes you can make include changing all fonts that you don't want to use. Of course, it's wise to backup all configuration files before you edit them. --Lynne Lynne A. Price Text Structure Consulting, Inc. Specializing in structured FrameMaker consulting, application development, and training lprice at txstruct.com http://www.txstruct.com voice/fax: (510) 583-1505 cell phone: (510) 421-2284
