As a "Postscript" (no pun intended) to the earlier recap of font issues, I
offer the following:
As Stuart Rogers mentioned, pasting text, with the help of a plugin, can also
solve font issues.
Many companies, mine included, do not allow use of plugins as they fall under
the realm of "unapproved software" and getting them approved is a long?painful
process.
But you can easily paste text without the plugin several different ways.
Easiest is to just use the menu Edit>Paste Special and select "Text".
But if you are doing significant amounts of pasting, this can slow you down,
and it is easy to forget.
For most of our authors, I have modified the maker.ini file to set "Text" as
the default. The Frame default is OLE, which as most of you know, is a disaster
in newer Windows systems.
To do this, navigate Program Files>Adobe>...>...FrameMaker(n) and open the
maker.ini file in a text editor. (I suggest a backup file prior).
You can also do a Windows search for the file, but be aware that there is a
"sub" maker.ini file for each user on the machine that holds specific settings
for that user on that machine. Do not modify this one. Find the the one in
Program Files.
Search(find) TEXT in the file. You will see a string similar to (may differ
with Frame version):
ClipboardFormatsPriorities=FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIFW, MIF, RTF,
UNICODE TEXT, TEXT
Move TEXT in front of FILE, as shown below, save the file, and re-launch Frame
ClipboardFormatsPriorities=FILE, TEXT, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIFW, MIF,
RTF, UNICODE TEXT
Now unformatted text is the default paste action, and Paste Special is not
needed. Two more points:
1. In Paste Special, the order of the list items does not reflect the order in
maker.ini.
2. You can still use Paste Special to select RTF, etc. to override the new
default text paste if you wish.
Also, many of our authors open Word files in FrameMaker to do their copy paste
operations. This come from many sources, and are often very "dirty" from a
format perspective. If you wish to paste Rich Text Format from Word to carry
some formatting, or just use the Frame version of the Word file, you can do
clean up by finding and deleting the hidden character "\x0d". (no quotes, and
it is a zero, not an "o"). You can also do this with a mif wash, but I think
this is easier.
Oran Petersen
