Re: Changing Printers
Thanks to Art, Stuart, Fred, and Mike for your wise words. We use only PostScript printers and virtually all output is to PDF these days, so I guess there's no need to worry. Has anyone ever experienced a problem with a particular printer/font? Paul On 24 Jul 2008, at 21:36, Mike Feimster wrote: There is a plug-in called Set Print you can get at http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm that allows you set your Windows default printer to what you normally print to and your FrameMaker default printer to Acrobat. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Art Campbell Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:32 AM To: Paul Findon Cc: FrameUsers List Subject: Re: Changing Printers Assuming you mostly work with PostScript printers and PDFs, if you set the system default printer to Adobe PDF / Acrobat, you should be fine. The problem is that some printers have their own embedded fonts that are different than the system's fonts or the system's versions of those fonts. They aren't part of the Windows system, but they can be accessed on the printer. If the font appears to be available to the system as a remote resource, it'll use it. But it can't be embedded in a PDF, for instance, and won't travel with the file to another system that doesn't use that printer. A On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Paul Findon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Framers, With Mac FrameMaker, changing the printer made no difference to FrameMaker in regard to fonts. With Windows FrameMaker, however, changing the printer causes FrameMaker to display the following somewhat worrying message: The font information for your system has changed. This change may affect the format and output of your documents. Can someone please explain what's actually occurring here, how to avoid any pitfalls, etc? Paul ___ -- Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mike.feimster% 40acst echnologies.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Changing Printers
Assuming you mostly work with PostScript printers and PDFs, if you set the system default printer to Adobe PDF / Acrobat, you should be fine. The problem is that some printers have their own embedded fonts that are different than the system's fonts or the system's versions of those fonts. They aren't part of the Windows system, but they can be accessed on the printer. If the font appears to be available to the system as a remote resource, it'll use it. But it can't be embedded in a PDF, for instance, and won't travel with the file to another system that doesn't use that printer. A On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Paul Findon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Framers, With Mac FrameMaker, changing the printer made no difference to FrameMaker in regard to fonts. With Windows FrameMaker, however, changing the printer causes FrameMaker to display the following somewhat worrying message: The font information for your system has changed. This change may affect the format and output of your documents. Can someone please explain what's actually occurring here, how to avoid any pitfalls, etc? Paul ___ -- Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Changing Printers
Art Campbell wrote: Assuming you mostly work with PostScript printers and PDFs, if you set the system default printer to Adobe PDF / Acrobat, you should be fine. The problem is that some printers have their own embedded fonts that are different than the system's fonts or the system's versions of those fonts. They aren't part of the Windows system, but they can be accessed on the printer. If the font appears to be available to the system as a remote resource, it'll use it. But it can't be embedded in a PDF, for instance, and won't travel with the file to another system that doesn't use that printer. A On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Paul Findon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Framers, With Mac FrameMaker, changing the printer made no difference to FrameMaker in regard to fonts. With Windows FrameMaker, however, changing the printer causes FrameMaker to display the following somewhat worrying message: The font information for your system has changed. This change may affect the format and output of your documents. Can someone please explain what's actually occurring here, how to avoid any pitfalls, etc? Paul ___ Paul, I recommend the free Setprint plug-in from Sundorne, http://sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm It will make Adobe PDF your default printer within FM without affecting your other applications, which can continue to use your default physical printer. You may also find that the driver for your physical printer has an option to report its fonts to the operating system -- if it does, try turning that option off. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com In matters of politics, I never believe anything until it's officially denied. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Changing Printers
Paul Findon wrote: With Mac FrameMaker, changing the printer made no difference to FrameMaker in regard to fonts. With Windows FrameMaker, however, changing the printer causes FrameMaker to display the following somewhat worrying message: The font information for your system has changed. This change may affect the format and output of your documents. Can someone please explain what's actually occurring here, how to avoid any pitfalls, etc? On a Windows system, the font metrics (the precise width and height dimensions of each and every glyph and space) are part of the printer driver. When you change from one printer to another, you are also inevitably changing to a different set of font metrics data, which may or may not be different in a significant way. If you are switching between two different PostScript printers of similar resolution, any differences should be small enough to be insignificant. But if you are switching between PostScript and non-PostScript (e.g. PCL or clone-script) printers or between printers of very different resolutions, the tiny differences in character-by-character dimensions can add up to a large enough degree that it can affect a few of your line breaks. And changes in a line break or two can affect the length of a paragraph; and changes in the length of a paragraph or two can affect the page breaks; and changes in page breaks can affect the length of a chapter; and any change in the length of a chapter can affect the pagination for a large part of your document and render the page numbers in your generated files inaccurate. FrameMaker has no way of knowing whether any of these cascading changes have actually occurred when the font metrics were changed, but warns you that such changes *might* have occurred. Fred Ridder ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Changing Printers
There is a plug-in called Set Print you can get at http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm that allows you set your Windows default printer to what you normally print to and your FrameMaker default printer to Acrobat. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Art Campbell Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:32 AM To: Paul Findon Cc: FrameUsers List Subject: Re: Changing Printers Assuming you mostly work with PostScript printers and PDFs, if you set the system default printer to Adobe PDF / Acrobat, you should be fine. The problem is that some printers have their own embedded fonts that are different than the system's fonts or the system's versions of those fonts. They aren't part of the Windows system, but they can be accessed on the printer. If the font appears to be available to the system as a remote resource, it'll use it. But it can't be embedded in a PDF, for instance, and won't travel with the file to another system that doesn't use that printer. A On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Paul Findon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Framers, With Mac FrameMaker, changing the printer made no difference to FrameMaker in regard to fonts. With Windows FrameMaker, however, changing the printer causes FrameMaker to display the following somewhat worrying message: The font information for your system has changed. This change may affect the format and output of your documents. Can someone please explain what's actually occurring here, how to avoid any pitfalls, etc? Paul ___ -- Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mike.feimster%40acst echnologies.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
