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Tiggyboo1
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September 8, 2017
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How can determine what fonts a framemaker template uses?

  • September 8, 2017
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Is there a way for me to, preferably programmatically (via script, or looking at MIF versions) determine what Framemaker templates use a specific font?  For instance, given a directory full of templates, is there a way to query them as a group to determine which reports use, say, Futura Book?  I could do it template by template if necessary.  Non-programmatic responses welcome too :-).

Thanks in advance.

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    barbara_a7746676
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    barbara_a7746676Community Expert
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    September 24, 2017

    Silicon Prairie Software makes an inexpensive plugin called Paragraph Tools which might give you the information you need. Silicon Prairie - FrameMaker Products

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    FieryPantone
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    September 22, 2017

    Don't know about how to access the information elegantly, but a .mif file contains <FontCatalog> and <PgfCatalog> sections with entries for each style in the document. I _believe_ that the .book file (saved out as .mif) _may_ contain all the definitions from the component .fm files, including:

    <FPlatformName `W.Arial.R.400'>

    <FFamily `Arial'>

    There's no guarantee, though, that a style defined in the catalogue is applied to any of the document content; you'd need to clean the styles catalogues first.

    HTH

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