Hey! Our distill fails all the time also -- it has something to do with Times New Roman font. Anything I can do to eliminate the problem?
We've been dealing with it by printing to PDF rather than saving as PDF, and that seems to work. FM 8.0 btw. Hideeho all! I hope your mid-week is going well! Deirdre On 3/25/08, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> wrote: > Are you cleaning the Word files of hidden Word characters after > opening them in FM (by saving as MIF and opening those)? > > Assuming that you and the other writer work from a common template, > doesn't Importing Formats from one of your files reconcile the fonts? > > You could try selecting all the text in a file. Then, in Paragraph > designer, change the font to a generic, such as Arial unicode. Then > apply the font properties to all selected tags. > > Art > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Earl (Esar) Rudnikoff <erudni at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Framers, > > > > I work together with a technical writer in China. Her source files are > > Word; so her FM files have Chinese fonts that were imported along with the > > text. How can I replace these fonts with fonts I have installed.on my > > computer and then remove all the fonts I don't have from the book? There > > seems to be one font that is causing problems. Even if I select all and > > change the fonts manually the existence of the font causes the distill to > > fail. > > > > Thanks > > -- > > Esar (Earl) Rudnikoff > > > > email: erudni at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as deirdre.reagan at gmail.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/deirdre.reagan%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >