font substitution, makes no sense, I have the font on my box

Question

I have Adobe Garamond Pro Bold installed on my machine. You can see it in /fonts, and you can use it in Illustrator.

FrameMaker 9.0 keeps substitutingAdobe Garamond Pro Semibold for it.

But when I look at the font list in the para and char format panels, A. Garamond Pro Bold is not grayed out.

Why is Frame making this substitution, if it apparently can *see* A. Garamond Pro Bold?

Everything I can find about the issue online says that when Frame substitutes a font, the font is grayed-out in the formatting panels.

Additionally, why am I able to print a PDF that uses the correct font, despite getting this error?

I am printing to the Adobe PDF printer and then using Distiller 7 to make the PDF. I have de-selected "Do not send fonts to Adobe PDF".

I am stumped, hoping that a Frame wizard can enlighten me. Thanks very much!

Becky

David_Crowe · Answer

It seems to be the way most Windows applications “see” the Adobe Garamond Pro family, and is presumably defined within the font itself.

In applications that recognise only four variants per family, the “bold” version of the basic font is in fact semibold. To get the real Bold, you have to use the font that is listed separately as Adobe Garamond Pro Bold.

Some newer applications, including InDesign, show six variants in the family: Regular, Semibold and Bold, together with the italic equivalents. (I suspect some older apps running under Windows 7 may do the same, but I am on XP here at work and can’t check this.)

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