Re: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
Have you tried saving as .mif and searching for that font? On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Karen Robbins karendes...@gmail.com wrote: A file (generated file from a plain text source) keeps displaying the unavailable fonts error each time it opens. I've run Silicoin Prairie's Paragraph Tools

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread rebecca officer
Hi Karen The other option is to save the file as MIF, open it in a text editor and look for fonts. MIFs are pretty human-readable. Cheers Rebecca Combs, Richard richard.co...@polycom.com 24/01/13 13:54 Karen Robbins wrote: A file (generated file from a plain text source) keeps displaying

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 17:21 -0800 23/1/13, Karen Robbins wrote: You are correct, that's just what it was--Times instances in the default tables. (I did the mif to find this out; there are no tables in the document itself.) I already thought I'd have to do what you say... How annoying that I have to do this extra

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Combs, Richard
Karen Robbins wrote: You are correct, that's just what it was--Times instances in the default tables. (I did the mif to find this out; there are no tables in the document itself.) That's why I said to insert an instance of each table format. I already thought I'd have to do what you

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Karen Robbins
I sure do learn something new every day! :-) I could also define those formats in a stock document and always import them to the working document. I do something similar for indexes--a format master imported each time a new one is generated. I like the idea of using SP's Table Tools to just

Re: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 24/01/2013 11:18 AM, Karen Robbins wrote: I sure do learn something new every day! :-) I could also define those formats in a stock document and always import them to the working document. I do something similar for indexes--a format master imported each time a new one is generated. I like

Re: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 24/01/2013 11:05 AM, Combs, Richard wrote: Or for a comprehensive, permanent solution, you can modify any and all format definitions to suit you (as well as which formats exist) in the behind-the-scenes template that FM uses when you create a new document without selecting a template (Use

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Combs, Richard
Stuart Rogers wrote: I just modified shellnew.fm with your suggested changes, and there is no effect on a new document. The table formats still use Times New Roman, the ruler is still in cm. There is another file, custom with no extension, also in the fminit directory. I am able to use

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Combs, Richard
I wrote: Oops, sorry. I misremembered some information from many years ago. You're right, it's custom that's used when you create new blank paper documents in FM (shellnew.fm is used when you create a new FM doc outside of FM; don't ask me why). Eating lunch seems to have slightly revived

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-24 Thread Steve Rickaby
For anyone still using FrameMaker 7 on Mac, the 'custom' file that sets the defaults for new blank documents seems to be /Adobe FrameMaker 7.0/Modules/Custom New Document, in whatever root folder you have located your Classic apps. -- Steve ___ You

RE: Unavailable Fonts Error: Save to .ps, but...

2013-01-24 Thread Karen Robbins
Saving to Postscript and distilling does work, but I did see a can't open [thisfilename].fm message at the bottom of the book window beneath the list of pages. The file did open, .ps file was created correctly, distilled correctly. I thought the save as PDF function in FM11 (my current

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-23 Thread Combs, Richard
Karen Robbins wrote: A file (generated file from a plain text source) keeps displaying the unavailable fonts error each time it opens. I've run Silicoin Prairie's Paragraph Tools on this file, and the only font it finds in the file is HelveticaNeueLT Std--exactly as it should be. I've

RE: Unavailable Fonts error

2013-01-23 Thread Karen Robbins
You are correct, that's just what it was--Times instances in the default tables. (I did the mif to find this out; there are no tables in the document itself.) I already thought I'd have to do what you say... How annoying that I have to do this extra work to undo a presumptuous default.