Thanks very much for your suggestions. I fixed it, a day and a half later, after installing the fonts through Font Book, not directly into the System 9 Fonts folder (which I thought I'd read somewhere was the same thing, but maybe not).
Thanks. Louise Moritsugu >From: Paul Findon <pfindon at infopage.net> >To: framers at lists.frameusers.com >Subject: Re: switched printers -- now HelvObl prints with extra slant >Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:09:09 +0100 > >On 19 Apr 2007, at 07:00, f"L MORITSUGU" <lmoritsugu at sympatico.ca> wrote: > >>I'm using FM 6.5, Mac, in Classic. I was printing to a Laserwriter Select >>360, through an AsanteTalk bridge, and everything looked as it should. >> >>I've just switched to a Lexmark E120n laser printer. Now it prints >>Helvetica >>bold oblique and Helvetica oblique with an additional slant. (I have not >>checked if this is also happening with other fonts.) >> >>I've reinstalled the fonts, then installed a different version (from a >>colleague) of the fonts into the System 9 Fonts folder, and restarted FM, >>with no change. >> >>This also happened, before I switched the printers (machines), when I >>made >>pdfs from the FM files, either using a.) Save as, then Distiller, or b.) >>Print to file, then Distiller. >> >>It's probably something obvious, but I don't get it. Any ideas? > >What font format are you using? > >Does the issue also occur with other Mac OS 9 apps? > >Does the issue occur with other fonts? > >I always delete the TrueType Times, Helvetica, Symbol, etc., included with >Mac OS 9 and replace with PostScript Type 1 versions. > >BTW, there's a bunch of Mac FrameMaker users on the FrameMaker for Mac OS >X discussion group at: ><http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fmforosx/> > >Paul >_______________________________________________ > > >You are currently subscribed to Framers as lmoritsugu at sympatico.ca. > >Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to >framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >or visit >http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lmoritsugu%40sympatico.ca > >Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.