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February 15, 2009
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Easiest way to find & replace fonts?

  • February 15, 2009
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I need to replace a font in my document w/Arial, and I don't know the easiest way to go about it.

For some reason I assumed there was a simple "Find & Replace" method, like in InDesign or Quark, but I can't seem to find it.

I've tried the "Find/Change" > "Character Format" tool, but it doesn't seem to work...Any suggestions?
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    Adobe Employee
    February 17, 2009
    Adobe has introduced Fonts pod in FrameMaker 9 using which you can easily replace Fonts in your document.
    _Renee_Z_Author
    Participating Frequently
    February 17, 2009
    Thanks...I'll try that out! :)
    Participating Frequently
    February 16, 2009
    Maybe you forgot to set all unused format options to "as is"?

    Another reason could be how you specified the replacement format. You can either apply a new direct formatting, or apply a certain character tag (using Edit > Copy Special to capture the replacement character tag from the current selection, and the 'Paste' option in the Find/Change dialog).
    _Renee_Z_Author
    Participating Frequently
    February 15, 2009
    Thanks! Yeah, I've done this on each Paragraph Style, but it looks like there are some leftover chunks of text that either weren't styled or are haven't updated, because when I run an index of font references it's still picking up instances the old font.
    Inspiring
    February 15, 2009
    Use the Paragraph Designer to make the change at the tag level by specifying Arial instead of whatever is in use.

    If you have a number of tags, you can select them all in the document and then use a global command in the Para Designer to apply the new font to all selected tags.

    If you have a book, once you've got a chapter set up, import the updated formats too all chapters by selecting them in the book file and Importing Formats to them with the edited chapter as your source.

    Art