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March 4, 2014
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Font management issue

  • March 4, 2014
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My office recently upgraded to FrameMaker 11 in a Windows 7 environment. We previously used FrameMaker 8 | Windows XP.

We are in the process of replacing the following fonts:

Courier

Zapf Dingbats

With the following:

Courier New

ITC Zapf Dingbats Std Medium

I am having problems with Zapf Dingbats being replaced with ITC Zapf Dingbats Std Medium. I have used the fonts pod to update these fonts for all of the appropriate FrameMaker files.

We use an automated process to create the FrameMaker files. The process involves importing XML feeds into Structured FrameMaker 11 using an automated process. After the XML has been imported, it is fully formatted in FrameMaker 11. After I select the xml file to import and the automated process is about to import the xml file into FrameMaker 11, the FrameMaker console is displaying this message:

The “Zapfdingbats” font is not available.

It will be replaced by “AdobePiStd”.

The “Zapfdingbats” font is not available.

It will be replaced by “AdobePiStd”.

The “Courier” font is not available.

It will be replaced by “Courier New”.

When I view the fonts in this newly created FrameMaker 11 file in the font pod, the “AdobePiStd” font is displayed as part of the fonts in this file. I did update the Zapf Dingbats occurrences in the FrameMaker template to ITC Zapf Dingbats Std Medium and I updated all of the other systems files as well. I did update the FrameMaker Edd.

I looked at the maker.ini file and I noticed the following code:

; Font Entries Added in Frame 8 due to Font Set Changes

Zapfdingbats, *,*= Adobe Pi Std,*,*

In the automated process that I am using, when the xml feed is about to be imported is this line of code causing FrameMaker 11 to override the font changes that I made to all of the FrameMaker 11 files? Should I change this line of code to this in order to fix the problem:

Zapfdingbats, *,*= ITC Zapf Dingbats Std,*,*

Any help that you can give me will be appreciated.

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Arnis Gubins
Inspiring
March 4, 2014

If you've replaced all occurrences in your templates with the ITC version, then you could just comment that line out (place a semi-colon ";" at the front).

The replacement with the old Dingbats with new ITC ones should also work, but you have to enusre that proper name is used, i.e. you're missing the "Medium".

Known Participant
March 4, 2014

Thanks. I will try this.

Brenda