RE: Transitioning FrameMaker from Mac to Windows: fonts

2012-06-24 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 15:13 -0700 23/6/12, David Creamer wrote: I prefer Parallels, but you should check out both. Yes, true. I think there are some comparative reviews on line. I'd be interested in knowing the reasons for your preference, but maybe offline as it's not directly relevant to FrameMaker. I just

Re: Transitioning FrameMaker from Mac to Windows: fonts

2012-06-24 Thread Alan T Litchfield
Steve I have just been through this exercise. From 7 to 10. I have installed Win7 on the bootcamp partition and am using VirtualBox to run Windows as a virtual machine. I normally I run Windows through Virtual Box, but bootcamp provides a real hard disk into which I can start up Windows if I

Re: Transitioning FrameMaker from Mac to Windows: fonts

2012-06-24 Thread Alan T Litchfield
Steve I have just been through this exercise. From 7 to 10. I have installed Win7 on the bootcamp partition and am using VirtualBox to run Windows as a virtual machine. I normally I run Windows through Virtual Box, but bootcamp provides a real hard disk into which I can start up Windows if I

Re: Transitioning FrameMaker from Mac to Windows: fonts

2012-06-24 Thread Alan T Litchfield
I just tested the fonts issue using VirtualBox. While you can easily share folders between the Mac and your Virtual Box machine, you still need to import fonts into Windows for them to be active. The Mac installed fonts may not work by importing into Windows, at least those that I tried just

RE: Transitioning FrameMaker from Mac to Windows: fonts

2012-06-23 Thread David Creamer
I prefer Parallels, but you should check out both. What fonts do you currently use in Frame for Mac? You might have no choice but to purchase a new set of fonts. I agree--be careful with TransType Pro--a great program, but triple-check the font license. Dave Creamer IDEAS Training