At 08:12 -0800 24/2/09, Les Smalley wrote:

>Does your colleague actually have the Zapf Dingbat font installed?  Did this 
>happen in FM 6 also or did the dingbat characters display correctly?

Everything worked as expected in FrameMaker 6, as I understand it.

>Do any error messages appear in the FM console window when opening the 
>document, especially a message to the effect that the Dingbat font is not 
>available and another font (such as Times New Roman) will be used?

He says not, but I will double-check. It was the apparent absence of such 
messages that mystified me.

>I will guess that this is the case, and when he sends the document back to you 
>who does have the font, it opens normally.  This is a feature of FrameMaker - 
>it can make a temporary font substitution so editing can proceed, but when 
>opened on a system with the correct typefaces available the file will show 
>them.

Right. I'll check. Thanks.

-- 
Steve

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