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
