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September 23, 2009
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Framemaker 8, Arial Cyrillic, IOM font corruption

  • September 23, 2009
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Using Framemaker 8.0p277. I have a book with about 15 component chapters. The font used throughout is Arial Cyrillic.

When we generate the IOM, the font substitutes. It cannot be convinced to use Arial Cyrillic. We have tried the "Remember Missing Font Names" checkbox in both states. We select the text and it shows that Arial Cyrillic is the font attribute, but it is not Arial Cyrillic. There is no character style applied.

If we select the text, copy, and paste it into Word, it displays properly in Arial Cyrillic.

Paste it back into the Framemaker file, and it is garbage.

Exasperating. Is there a setting somewhere that we don't know about that is causing this bizarre behavior?

Thanks for any suggestions or assistance!

LJK

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    Michael_Müller-Hillebrand-basb
    Inspiring
    September 23, 2009

    LJK,

    Arial Cyrillic possibly is a font that provides Cyrillic glyphs in the place of upper-ANSI characters of the Windows-1252 encoding. It is not recommend to use non-Unicode fonts with a Unicode-aware application like FrameMaker 8 or FrameMaker 9! You could have used Arial, which contains all necessary Cyrillic glyphs.

    You mention the "Remember missing fonts" setting: Do you have a missing font? If yes, then solve that problem first.

    In the IOM document you will find a Reference Page called IOM with a text frame. This text frame contains special paragraphs which instruct FrameMaker how to build the IOM. There you will find a paragraph with its paragraph format name built from the marker type name + "IOM" (i.e. "SubjectIOM" for Subject markers). Using the paragraph designer you can now change the formatting of that paragraph format and use whatever font you want.

    After switching back to the Body Pages you will see the content as desired.

    HTH,

    - Michael

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