Hi Penelope and Kenneth, Thank you for your help. I regret to be late in replying. Usually replies move the thread into the Inbox of my Gmail, but this time it did not. I just started looking in my Sent Mail because of the thread (header) "Confused about hexadecimal Codes", and then I saw a couple of replies to my posting.
Kenneth: You are absolutely right. This is not a Distiller problem. I would rather think this is has to do with the PS driver. The character prints as intended on any non-postscript printer, but on a PostScript printer and to PDF it prints incorrectly. Penelope: It would have set me on the right track if I had read it eariler. :-( But the "Confused..." thread lead me to study the online manual: "FrameMaker Character Sets" where I saw that there is no entry for the circled roman 2, which must be rated as a bug. However, the sans-serif circled 2 has an entry, as referred to in your reply. ADOBE: I think Adobe should really make a separate revision/upgrade to this part of FM for all versions 7.x at least, or if this is, as I am starting to suspect, a PostScript driver fault, to revise the Adobe PostScript driver, and have this solved in the FrameMaker.next (as Bernard prefers to call the next version). Thanks again and God bless, Bodvar On 5/16/07, Penelope Perkins <Penelope.Perkins at synergex.com> wrote: > Bodvar, > > I can confirm this behavior on Win XP, FM 7.2, Acro 7.0. Do you recall > the issue a number of years ago with Zapf Dingbats and Win2000/XP? To > get the right characters to both display and print, you had to edit the > PPD for the printer driver. I thought that might have something to do > with your problematic circle-2, but I checked the PPD used by Distiller > 7 and it doesn't even include the line that the fix told you to edit. > Just out of curiosity, I tried this on a system with Win2000, FM 7.0, > Acro 5.5, and got the same results, regardless of whether that PPD is > edited, so it's not a new problem. > > Do you have to use the serif numbers? There are sans serif numbers in > circles starting at ALT+0192; I tested to make sure ALT+0193 really > produces a circle-2. > > BTW, you can see info about the aforementioned issue at > http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?50 at 97.JKaTavSAj4d.0@.ef4dc73 > > Regards, > Penelope > > ========================================= > Penelope Perkins, Senior Technical Writer > Synergex > Sacramento, California > pperkins at synergex.com > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: > > framers-bounces+pperkins=synergex.com at lists.frameusers.com > > [mailto:framers-bounces+pperkins=synergex.com at lists.frameusers > .com] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson > > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:48 AM > > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > > Subject: Character switching FM/Distiller > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to use Zapf Dingbats (that has never failed me!) to > > display and print a.o. the digit 2 in a ring. The FM shortcut is > > CTRL-q - (dash) or ALT-0173. > > > > The weird thing is that in both instances (using CTRL-q - (dash) and > > ALT-0173) or by copy - pasting from the character map, the character > > shows correctly in FM 7.2 but after distilling, the pdf shows the hand > > holding pen turning left. > > Both characters are using the dash, according to the character map, > > with the difference that the hand is hard dash and the 2 circled is > > the soft dash. > > > > Any ideas? Will I need to use the circled numbers from Wingdings 1? > > > > I have no problems with the circled "1". > > > > Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, > > Supervisor Publishing, > > Air Atlanta Icelandic. > > _______________________________________________ > > > > >
