Good point. I just did that, too. Thanks, Art!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 User guides, online help, FrameMaker and WebWorks ePublisher templates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:22 PM To: Linda G. Gallagher Cc: Paul Findon; FrameUsers List Subject: Re: Adobe Garamond font in bold doesn't distill properly Another solution would be to install them from the \Frame folder. A collection of fonts are in the same place on the 7 system I'm working on right now, but installing made them available to everything and consolidated the files into the \Fonts folder. Art On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Linda G. Gallagher <lindag at techcomplus.com> wrote: > Bingo! That was the answer. Now the bold looks, well, bold when I print the > PDF. > > I didn't dig deep enough in the FM folder to find where the fonts were. > Silly me, I didn't think they'd be that buried if FM installed fonts. My > bad. > > Thanks, Paul! > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Linda G. Gallagher > TechCom Plus, LLC > lindag at techcomplus dot com > www.techcomplus.com > 303-450-9076 or 800-500-3144 > User guides, online help, FrameMaker and > WebWorks ePublisher templates > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Paul Findon > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:11 PM > To: FrameUsers List > Subject: Re: Adobe Garamond font in bold doesn't distill properly > > On 17 Jun 2008, at 19:13, Linda G. Gallagher wrote: >> >> I created a new template recently and selected Adobe Garamond for >> my body >> text. I created a bold character tag and set it to As Is, then >> selected Bold >> for the weight. When I created a PDF, all of the bold text was all >> weird >> (oddly spaced in a supposed monospaced font). >> >> After looking into that, I found that the only Weight option for >> the Adobe >> Garamond font was actually Semibold, so I changed the character tag to >> Semibold, but I'm seeing the same results when I create a PDF. All >> looks >> fine on-screen and when printing a laser printer from FM, so it >> must be >> something related to Acrobat. >> >> In looking at my Distiller options, I don't see any of the Adobe fonts >> listed in the Embedding field on the Fonts screen. I think these >> fonts came >> with FM 8 (I see several Adobe fonts in FM 8), because I don't >> think I had >> them before I installed FM 8. >> >> I can't seem to find where these Adobe fonts are installed, and I'm >> not sure >> how to resolve this PDF issue. Of course, I can change to a different >> Garamond (I do have another), but I'd like to understand the >> problem and >> solution better, in case I really want to use these Adobe fonts in the >> future > > Hi Linda, > > For some reason, the OpenType fonts bundled with FrameMaker 8, > including Adobe Garamond Pro, reside in > > C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker8\fminit\fonts\adobe\ > > which, in addition to making them not available to non-Adobe programs > such as Office, also means that Distiller can't find them. > To fix this, go to Distiller > Settings > Font Location, and add the > above font location. > > That's what I had to do to get the bundled Minion Pro and Myriad Pro > to embed. > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as lindag at techcomplus.com. > > 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/lindag%40techcomplus.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > _______________________________________________ > -- Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358