Cross-platform font conundrum

2006-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
When moving a template that uses Frutiger 45 and 55 Ps Type 1 from Mac to PC FrameMaker 7, the recipient reports missing font messages for the fonts, even though they are [allegedly] installed on the PC. Can anyone offer me any pointers as to why this might be occurring? I cannot check the

Re: [fmforosx] Cross-platform font conundrum

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Findon
On 23 Jan 2006, at 09:44, Steve Rickaby wrote: When moving a template that uses Frutiger 45 and 55 Ps Type 1 from Mac to PC FrameMaker 7, the recipient reports missing font messages for the fonts, even though they are [allegedly] installed on the PC. Can anyone offer me any pointers as to why

Re: [fmforosx] Cross-platform font conundrum

2006-01-23 Thread Mark Barratt
Paul Findon wrote: On 23 Jan 2006, at 09:44, Steve Rickaby wrote: When moving a template that uses Frutiger 45 and 55 Ps Type 1 from Mac to PC FrameMaker 7, the recipient reports missing font messages for the fonts, even though they are [allegedly] installed on the PC. Can anyone offer me

Re: Cross-platform font conundrum

2006-01-23 Thread William Gaffga
The cross-platform fonts thing can be a PITA. We use the same OpenType fonts on the Mac PC for our template but the PC does not recognize one of the variants of Futura Condensed so when we bring the files to the PC (fairly rare) the fonts shift. Fortunately for us we only generate Help

Cross-platform font conundrum

2006-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
When moving a template that uses Frutiger 45 and 55 Ps Type 1 from Mac to PC FrameMaker 7, the recipient reports missing font messages for the fonts, even though they are [allegedly] installed on the PC. Can anyone offer me any pointers as to why this might be occurring? I cannot check the

[fmforosx] Cross-platform font conundrum

2006-01-23 Thread Mark Barratt
Paul Findon wrote: > On 23 Jan 2006, at 09:44, Steve Rickaby wrote: > >> When moving a template that uses Frutiger 45 and 55 Ps Type 1 from Mac >> to PC FrameMaker 7, the recipient reports missing font messages for >> the fonts, even though they are [allegedly] installed on the PC. Can >>

[fmforosx] Cross-platform font conundrum

2006-01-23 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 4:01 pm + 23/1/06, Mark Barratt wrote: >Paul Findon wrote: >> >>I've never experienced this first-hand because all the FrameMaker users I >>deal with around the world are on the Mac, but I understand that the fonts >>must be of the exact same type and from the exact same foundry, and

Cross-platform font conundrum

2006-01-23 Thread William Gaffga
The cross-platform fonts thing can be a PITA. We use the same OpenType fonts on the Mac & PC for our template but the PC does not recognize one of the variants of Futura Condensed so when we bring the files to the PC (fairly rare) the fonts shift. Fortunately for us we only generate Help