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FieryPantone
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March 20, 2013
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default fonts in structured interface

  • March 20, 2013
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Dipping a cautious toe in the exciting waters of structured documentation; or, rather, trying my hand at using structured FrameMaker instead of / as well as my usual DITA IDE.

First minor question:

The Courier font is not available
The Zapfdingbats font is not available

Quite right; they aren't! so, how do I persuade structured FM to use something else, from now on and for ever? I'll probably have more interesting questions later ;-}

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Russ Ward
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March 21, 2013

Hi Niels,

There is some sort of entity settings file that Frame opens (in the background) during XML import that is actually a binary FM file and contains fonts like this. On FM11 on my machine it is here:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker11\Structure\entfmts

When FM attempts to read it during an import, you'll get these font errors if your machine doesn't have them. The solution is to make a backup of the file, then go into the original and just replace those fonts with something else. I'm not really clear on what this file is for but replacing fonts in it have never had any consequence for me. But like I said, make a backup

See if that fixes the problem.

Russ

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    FieryPantoneAuthor
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    March 21, 2013

    Ah. Sounds like a helpful answer, but also (alas) like a non-starter in this corporate environment. I may not (cannot, even) access config files, and the people who can access them refuse to touch them.

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